The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 2

So the son said to him, ‘Dear father, you are so poor that I am only a burden to you; I would rather go out into the world and see if I can earn my own living.’

Who acts: son, you, I, my · What happens: say, be, go out, see, earn, live · To what, where: man, burden, you, world, own living · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, you, I, my), 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	_	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 son	det
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 father	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 father	punct
9	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 father	amod
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 poor	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 poor	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 poor	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 poor	advmod
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 burden	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 burden	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 burden	cop
19	only	only	ADV	_	21 burden	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 burden	det
21	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 poor	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 burden	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
27	rather	rather	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
29	out	out	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 see	cc
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 go	conj
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 earn	mark
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 earn	nsubj
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 earn	aux
38	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 see	ccomp
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 living	nmod:poss
40	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 living	amod
41	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 earn	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the son		man			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	is	present	you				poor property	tree rules
3	is a	present	I	a burden	you			tree rules
4	go out	would	I			the world	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	infinitive	I not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	earn a condition, not said to happen	can	I	my own living				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme
7	live		my					nom living «cognition intransitive»: 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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