More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 148
To-morrow, when you come in sight of a very large castle, which will be surrounded with black water, the first thing you will do you will tie your horse to a tree, and you will see three beautiful swans in sight, and you will say, 'Swan, swan, carry me over in the name of the Griffin of the Greenwood,' and the swans will swim you over to the earth.
Who acts: you, swans · What happens: come, surround, do, tie, see, say · To what, where: sight, large castle, first thing, horse, three beautiful swans, Swan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, swans), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 morrow | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morrow | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 come | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 castle | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 large | advmod |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 castle | amod |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sight | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 surrounded | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 surrounded | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 19 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 castle | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 21 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 water | amod |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 surrounded | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thing | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 thing | det |
| 25 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 thing | amod |
| 26 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 castle | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 do | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 do | aux |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 thing | acl:relcl |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 tie | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 tie | aux |
| 32 | tie | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 thing | acl:relcl |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 horse | nmod:poss |
| 34 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tie | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 tree | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 tree | det |
| 37 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tie | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 see | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 see | cc |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 see | nsubj |
| 41 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 see | aux |
| 42 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | advcl |
| 43 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 swans | nummod |
| 44 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 swans | amod |
| 45 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 see | obj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 sight | case |
| 47 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 swans | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 say | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 say | cc |
| 50 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 52 say | nsubj |
| 51 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 say | aux |
| 52 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | parataxis |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 Swan | punct |
| 54 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 55 Swan | punct |
| 55 | Swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 say | obj |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 swan | punct |
| 57 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 Swan | conj |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 carry | punct |
| 59 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 52 say | parataxis |
| 60 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 59 carry | obj |
| 61 | over | over | ADP | _ | 59 carry | compound:prt |
| 62 | in | in | ADP | _ | 64 name | case |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 name | det |
| 64 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 carry | obl |
| 65 | of | of | ADP | _ | 67 Griffin | case |
| 66 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 67 Griffin | det |
| 67 | Griffin | Griffin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 64 name | nmod |
| 68 | of | of | ADP | _ | 70 Greenwood | case |
| 69 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 70 Greenwood | det |
| 70 | Greenwood | greenwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 Griffin | nmod |
| 71 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 70 Greenwood | punct |
| 72 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 70 Greenwood | punct |
| 73 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 77 swim | cc |
| 74 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 75 swans | det |
| 75 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 77 swim | nsubj |
| 76 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 77 swim | aux |
| 77 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 59 carry | conj |
| 78 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 77 swim | obj |
| 79 | over | over | ADP | _ | 77 swim | compound:prt |
| 80 | to | to | ADP | _ | 82 earth | case |
| 81 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 82 earth | det |
| 82 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 77 swim | obl |
| 83 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | you | sight of a large castle and the first thing | to morrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | surround | future · passive | a large castle and the first thing | with black water | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | future | you | the first thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | tie | future | you | your horse | to a tree | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | see | future | you | three beautiful swans | sight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swan=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | future | you | Swan and swan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent swan=Topic | ||||
| 7 | carry over | infinitive | me | the name of the Griffin of the Greenwood | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Value in name=Location | ||||
| 8 | swim over | future | the swans | you | to the earth | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location you=Theme | |||
| 9 | sight | a large castle and the first thing | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 10 | name | the Griffin of the Greenwood | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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: «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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