The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 57
Then the poor young man again set forth as well as his horse could take him, begging his living as he went, and, somehow or other, he ended by reaching the home of the wind.
Who acts: poor young man, sun · What happens: set, take, beg, go, end, reach · To what, where: poor young man, sun, living, home
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor young man, sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 man | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | nsubj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 man | advmod |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 man | acl |
| 8 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 7 set | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 7 set | advmod |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 as | fixed |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 horse | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 horse | nmod:poss |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | obl |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 begging | punct |
| 18 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 take | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 living | nmod:poss |
| 20 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 begging | obj |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 went | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 begging | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 somehow | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 somehow | cc |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 somehow | punct |
| 27 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 15 take | advmod |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 other | cc |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 somehow | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ended | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 ended | nsubj |
| 32 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | parataxis |
| 33 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 34 reaching | mark |
| 34 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 ended | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 home | det |
| 36 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 reaching | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 wind | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 wind | det |
| 39 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 home | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | participle | the poor young man not said here | as man's horse; forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | could | the poor young man | sun | somehow property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 3 | beg speech: request | gerund | the poor young man not said here | sun's living | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent living=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | go | past | sun | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | end | past | sun | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | reach | gerund | sun not said here | the home of the wind | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 7 | live | sun | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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