More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 110
Then walk on and fear not, far into the midst of the marsh, till ye find a coffin, a candle, and a cross.
Who acts: you, ye · What happens: walk on, not fear, find · To what, where: midst, coffin
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ye), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 walk | advmod |
| 2 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 walk | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fear | cc |
| 5 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 walk | conj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fear | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 midst | punct |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 midst | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 midst | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 midst | det |
| 11 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walk | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 marsh | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 marsh | det |
| 14 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 midst | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 find | mark |
| 17 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 find | nsubj |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 walk | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 coffin | det |
| 20 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 candle | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 candle | det |
| 23 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 coffin | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 cross | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 cross | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 cross | det |
| 27 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk on | imperative | you not said here | then | into the midst of the marsh result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into midst=Result | |||
| 2 | not fear | infinitive | you not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | find | present | ye | a coffin and a candle | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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