The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 4
“For I have a long way to go before I get home, and my feet will not carry me so far.”
Who acts: youth, feet · What happens: have, go, get, not carry · To what, where: long way, youth
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 (youth, feet), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 carry | punct |
| 2 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 have | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 carry | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 way | acl |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | advcl |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 get | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 carry | cc |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 feet | nmod:poss |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 carry | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 carry | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 carry | advmod |
| 20 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 carry | obj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 far | advmod |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 carry | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 carry | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the youth = youth | a long way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | the youth = youth not said here | a long way not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present | the youth = youth | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | not carry in a quote | future | my feet | the youth = youth | far property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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.
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