The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 7
Even though you will never climb the mountain now, I will tell you, for a joke, how it is to be found.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not climb, tell, find · To what, where: mountain, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 6 climb | advmod |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 climb | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 climb | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 climb | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 climb | advmod |
| 6 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountain | det |
| 8 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climb | obj |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 climb | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 tell | aux |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 climb | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | iobj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 joke | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 joke | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 joke | det |
| 18 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tell | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 found | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 found | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 found | aux:pass |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 found | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 found | aux:pass |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 joke | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not climb | future | you | the mountain | now | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mountain=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | future | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | find | present · passive | I not said here | mountain | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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