The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 30
Then we will start on our journey, and ride till we reach a certain river.
Who acts: we, our · What happens: start, ride, reach, journey · To what, where: journey, certain river
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, our), 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 | 4 start | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 start | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 start | aux |
| 4 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 journey | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 journey | nmod:poss |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 start | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ride | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ride | cc |
| 10 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 start | conj |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 reach | mark |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 reach | nsubj |
| 13 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ride | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 river | det |
| 15 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 river | amod |
| 16 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reach | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 start | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | future | we | our journey | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | ride | present | we not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reach | present | we | a certain river | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent river=Theme | ||||
| 4 | journey | our | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/14/30/