The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 5
The young man began his journey, and soon arrived at a place where four roads met.
Who acts: young man, four roads, man · What happens: begin, arrive, meet, journey · To what, where: journey, place
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, four roads, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 journey | nmod:poss |
| 6 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 arrived | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 arrived | cc |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 arrived | advmod |
| 10 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrived | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 met | advmod |
| 15 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 roads | nummod |
| 16 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 met | nsubj |
| 17 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 place | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the young man | man's journey | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | the young man not said here | a place | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | meet | past | four roads | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | journey | man | nom journey «act transitive»: 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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