The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 9
So he too set out on his journey to secure the thief, amid the jeers and laughter of the whole court and town.
Who acts: father · What happens: set out, secure, journey · To what, where: journey, thief
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 set | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 journey | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 journey | nmod:poss |
| 8 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 secure | mark |
| 10 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 set | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thief | det |
| 12 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 secure | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 amid | punct |
| 14 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thief | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 jeers | det |
| 16 | jeers | jeer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 secure | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 laughter | cc |
| 18 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jeers | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 court | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 court | det |
| 21 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 court | amod |
| 22 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laughter | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 town | cc |
| 24 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 court | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | father | father's journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | secure | to-infinitive | father not said here | the thief and amid | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition thief=Beneficiary jeer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | journey | father | nom journey «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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