The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 31

But the youth answered that he wanted to see something of the world, and that he would return again in three years, and nothing would make him change this resolve.

Who acts: youth, nothing · What happens: answer, want, see, return, make, change · To what, where: something, youth, resolve · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, nothing), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 wanted	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wanted	xcomp
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 see	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 something	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 return	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 return	cc
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 return	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 return	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 return	aux
19	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 see	conj
20	again	again	ADV	_	19 return	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 years	case
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 years	nummod
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 return	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 make	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 make	cc
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 make	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 make	aux
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 make	obj
30	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 make	xcomp
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 resolve	det
32	resolve	resolve	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 change	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the youth			tree rules
2	want	past	youth			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	youth not said here	something		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
4	return	would	youth		again; year	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	would	nothing	youth		tree rules
6	change	infinitive	youth not said here	this resolve		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resolve=Patient

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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