The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 93
“‘Go towards the little mountains,’ said he, ‘and ask there for the Black King’s Valley, and when you come to a tiny brook follow the stream till you reach the stone bridge beside the saw-mill.
Who acts: light, you · What happens: go, say, ask, come, follow, reach · To what, where: little mountains, tiny brook, stream, stone bridge, saw mill · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Go | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Go | punct |
| 3 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 7 mountains | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mountains | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mountains | amod |
| 7 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Go | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Go | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 he | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ask | cc |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 ask | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 Valley | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 19 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 King | compound |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Valley | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 King | case |
| 22 | Valley | Valley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ask | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 come | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 come | cc |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 come | advmod |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 come | nsubj |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ask | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 brook | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 brook | det |
| 30 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 brook | amod |
| 31 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 come | obl |
| 32 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 ask | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 stream | det |
| 34 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 follow | obj |
| 35 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 37 reach | mark |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 reach | nsubj |
| 37 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 follow | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 bridge | det |
| 39 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 bridge | compound |
| 40 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 reach | obj |
| 41 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 45 mill | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 mill | det |
| 43 | saw | saw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 mill | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 saw | punct |
| 45 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 reach | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | the little mountains | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards mountain=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | light | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | there | for the Black King's Valley | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present | you | a tiny brook | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brook=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | follow in a quote | infinitive | the stream | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Theme | |||||
| 6 | reach in a quote | present | you | the stone bridge | the saw mill | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bridge=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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