The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 7
Why don’t you set out and try your fortune somewhere else?’
Who acts: you · What happens: not set out, try · To what, where: fortune
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 n’t | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 n’t | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 set | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 try | cc |
| 8 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 set | conj |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 try | obj |
| 11 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 try | advmod |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 11 somewhere | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not set out | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | try | infinitive | you not said here | your fortune | somewhere property | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Eventuality |
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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