The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 38
He was now obliged to trust to his own legs, and after walking a long way he reached a big town.
Who acts: youth · What happens: oblige, trust, walk, reach · To what, where: youth, own legs, long way, big town
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | 4 obliged | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obliged | aux:pass |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 obliged | advmod |
| 4 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 trust | mark |
| 6 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 obliged | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 legs | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 legs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 legs | amod |
| 10 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 trust | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reached | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 reached | cc |
| 13 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 walking | mark |
| 14 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 reached | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 way | amod |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 walking | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 reached | nsubj |
| 19 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obliged | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 town | det |
| 21 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 town | amod |
| 22 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reached | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | youth | now | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | trust | to-infinitive | youth's own legs | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to leg=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | walk | gerund | youth not said here | a long way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | youth | a big town | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme |
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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