The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 71

So he set forth at once, and, somehow or other, he managed to reach that distant land.

Who acts: man · What happens: set, manage, reach · To what, where: distant land

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 (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	So	so	ADV	_	3 set	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	forth	forth	ADV	_	3 set	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 set	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 somehow	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 somehow	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 somehow	punct
10	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	3 set	advmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 other	cc
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 somehow	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 managed	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 managed	nsubj
15	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 reach	mark
17	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 managed	xcomp
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 land	mark
19	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 land	amod
20	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reach	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	past	man		forth, somehow property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at once=Destination
2	manage	past	man			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	reach	to-infinitive	man not said here	distant land		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=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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