The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 65

Then she brought out the young man, who explained how he was seeking for his palace, and that no man had been able to tell him where it was, so he had come to the wind.

Who acts: mother, young man, man, life · What happens: bring out, explain, seek, be, tell, come · To what, where: young man, man, wind · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mother, young man, man, life), 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	3 brought	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 brought	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 explained	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 explained	nsubj
10	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	acl:relcl
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 seeking	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seeking	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seeking	aux
14	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 explained	ccomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 palace	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 palace	nmod:poss
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seeking	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 able	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 able	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 able	mark
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 able	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 able	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 able	cop
25	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brought	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 tell	mark
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 able	xcomp
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tell	iobj
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 tell	ccomp
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 where	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 where	cop
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 come	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	36 come	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 come	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 come	aux
36	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 brought	parataxis
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 wind	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wind	det
39	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 come	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring out	past	mother	the young man			then		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent man=Patient
2	explain speech: assert	past	the young man						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seek	past · progressive	man					for man's palace	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for palace=Theme
4	is	past · perfect	no man					able property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	no man not said here		man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	is	past	life					where property	tree rules
7	come	past · perfect	man			the wind			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wind=Initial_Location

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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