The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 92

If you are tired of travelling before you come to the Land of Immortality, open this box and look at my picture, and you will be borne along either on earth or in the air, quick as thought, or swift as the whirlwind.”

Who acts: you · What happens: be, travel, come, open, look, bear · To what, where: Land, box, you, earth

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 tired	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 open	advcl
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 travelling	mark
6	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tired	advcl
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 come	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 come	nsubj
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 travelling	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 Land	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Land	det
12	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Immortality	case
14	Immortality	immortality	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Land	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tired	punct
16	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 box	det
18	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 open	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 look	cc
20	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 open	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 picture	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 picture	nmod:poss
23	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 look	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 borne	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 borne	cc
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 borne	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 borne	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 borne	aux:pass
29	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 open	advcl
30	along	along	ADV	_	29 borne	advmod
31	either	either	CCONJ	_	33 earth	cc:preconj
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 earth	case
33	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 borne	obl
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 air	cc
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 air	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 air	det
37	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 earth	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 quick	punct
39	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 earth	conj
40	as	as	ADP	_	41 thought	case
41	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 quick	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 swift	punct
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 swift	cc
44	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 borne	obl
45	as	as	ADP	_	47 whirlwind	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 whirlwind	det
47	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 swift	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 open	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you			tired property	tree rules
2	travel	gerund	you not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	present	you		the Land of Immortality		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location
4	open	imperative	you not said here	this box			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme
5	look	infinitive	you not said here			at my picture	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=Theme
6	bear	future · passive		you	earth or the air	swift as the whirlwind obl; along property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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