The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 99

The youngest went by himself along his lonely way, but this time he felt much more cheerful.

Who acts: youngest, child · What happens: go, feel · To what, where: lonely way

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, child), 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	2 youngest	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 went	obl
6	along	along	ADP	_	9 way	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 way	nmod:poss
8	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 felt	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 felt	cc
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 felt	obl:unmarked
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 felt	nsubj
15	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
16	much	much	ADV	_	17 more	advmod
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 cheerful	advmod
18	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 felt	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the youngest			child's lonely way		by child	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along way=Initial_Location
2	feel	past	child				time	cheerful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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