The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 70
But our traveller was not discouraged, he had already journeyed too far.
Who acts: traveller, man · What happens: not be, journey
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 (traveller, man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 discouraged | cc |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 traveller | nmod:poss |
| 3 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 discouraged | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 discouraged | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 discouraged | advmod |
| 6 | discouraged | discouraged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 journeyed | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 journeyed | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 journeyed | aux |
| 10 | already | already | ADV | _ | 11 journeyed | advmod |
| 11 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 discouraged | conj |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 far | advmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 journeyed | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 discouraged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | our traveller | discouraged property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | journey | past · perfect | man | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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