The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 122
Ride seven days and nights straight before you, and on the eighth morning you will see a great fire.
Who acts: you · What happens: ride, see · To what, where: great fire
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. 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 | Ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ride | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nights | cc |
| 5 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 days | conj |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 you | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Ride | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 see | cc |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 morning | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 morning | det |
| 13 | eighth | eighth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 morning | amod |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ride | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fire | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fire | amod |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | imperative | you not said here | before you; day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | future | you | a great fire | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus |
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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