The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 63
He took them with him and went far away, for he could no longer live with his family.
Who acts: cat · What happens: take, go, live · To what, where: things
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat), 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 | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 away | advmod |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 live | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 live | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 live | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 live | aux |
| 14 | no | no | ADV | _ | 15 longer | advmod |
| 15 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 live | advmod |
| 16 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 family | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 family | nmod:poss |
| 19 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 live | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | cat | things = thing | with Jenik | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | cat not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | could | cat | with cat's family; long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with family=Location |
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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