The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 29
The man had to betake himself to his former trade, and set to fishing again.
Who acts: man, curiosity · What happens: have, betake, set, trade · To what, where: curiosity
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, curiosity), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 betake | mark |
| 5 | betake | betake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 betake | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 trade | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 trade | nmod:poss |
| 9 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 trade | amod |
| 10 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 betake | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 betake | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 fishing | case |
| 15 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 set | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | betake | to-infinitive | the man not said here | curiosity | to curiosity's former trade | tree rules | |||
| 3 | set | infinitive | the man not said here | again | to fishing | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | trade | curiosity | nom trade «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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