The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 56
The young man did not even know where the tree of life grew, but he set off, determined to walk as far as his legs would carry him, though he had no hope of ever finding it.
Who acts: young man, tree, legs, hope · What happens: not know, grow, set off, determine, walk, carry · To what, where: tree, hope · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (young man, tree, legs, hope), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 know | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 know | advmod |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 grew | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | nmod |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 set | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 set | nsubj |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 set | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 determined | punct |
| 20 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 set | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 walk | mark |
| 22 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 determined | xcomp |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 far | advmod |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 walk | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 carry | mark |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 legs | nmod:poss |
| 27 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 carry | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 carry | aux |
| 29 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 far | advcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 carry | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 had | punct |
| 32 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 34 had | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 had | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 walk | advcl |
| 35 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 36 hope | det |
| 36 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 had | obj |
| 37 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 39 finding | mark |
| 38 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 39 finding | advmod |
| 39 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 hope | acl |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 finding | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | the young man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | the tree of life | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | set off | past | tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | determine | participle | tree not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | walk | to-infinitive | tree not said here | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | carry | would | tree's legs | tree | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | have | past | tree | no hope | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient | ||||
| 8 | find | gerund | no hope not said here | hope | ever | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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