The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 11

He travelled for nearly a year through the different parts of his territory, and then, having seen all there was to be seen, he set forth on his homeward way.

Who acts: KING · What happens: travel, see, be, set · To what, where: different parts, homeward way

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (KING), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 travelled	nsubj
2	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 year	case
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 year	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travelled	obl
7	through	through	ADP	_	10 parts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 parts	det
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 parts	amod
10	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 travelled	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 territory	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 territory	nmod:poss
13	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 parts	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seen	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 seen	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 having	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 having	punct
18	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 seen	aux
19	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 travelled	conj
20	all	all	ADV	_	22 was	advmod
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 was	expl
22	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seen	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	25 seen	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 seen	aux:pass
25	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 was	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 set	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 set	nsubj
28	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 travelled	conj
29	forth	forth	ADV	_	28 set	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 way	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 way	nmod:poss
32	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 way	compound
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 set	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past	KING	the different parts of KING's territory	year		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through part=Trajectory
2	see	gerund · perfect	KING not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	be	past	KING not said here	there		all property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive · passive	KING not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
5	set	past	KING	KING's homeward way		forth property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on way=Destination

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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