More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 151
When the swans carry you over to the castle, you will pass all these things, all fast asleep, but you must not notice any of them.
Who acts: swans, you · What happens: carry over, pass, not notice · To what, where: you, castle, things, any
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 (swans, you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 carry | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 swans | det |
| 3 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pass | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 carry | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 carry | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 pass | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 pass | aux |
| 13 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 things | det:predet |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 things | det |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pass | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fast | punct |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 fast | advmod |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 pass | advmod |
| 20 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fast | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 notice | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 notice | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 notice | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 notice | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 notice | advmod |
| 26 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 pass | conj |
| 27 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 notice | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 any | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry over | present | the swans | you | the castle | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to castle=Destination | |||
| 2 | pass | future | you | all things | fast property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | not notice | must | you | any | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer any=Stimulus |
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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