The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 49
I will go and wait on the bridge which leads over the river to the village, and you shall transform yourself into anything you please, but I will know you through any disguise.”
Who acts: I, bridge, you · What happens: go, wait, lead, transform, know · To what, where: bridge, river, yourself, you, disguise
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bridge, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wait | cc |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 bridge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bridge | det |
| 8 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wait | obl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 leads | nsubj |
| 10 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bridge | acl:relcl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 river | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 river | det |
| 13 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leads | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 village | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 village | det |
| 16 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leads | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 transform | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 transform | cc |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 transform | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 transform | aux |
| 21 | transform | transform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 22 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 transform | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 anything | case |
| 24 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 transform | obj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 please | nsubj |
| 26 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 24 anything | discourse |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 know | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 know | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 know | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 know | aux |
| 31 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 know | obj |
| 33 | through | through | ADP | _ | 35 disguise | case |
| 34 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 disguise | det |
| 35 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 know | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | I not said here | the bridge | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bridge=Location | ||||
| 3 | lead | present | the bridge | the river | to the village | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to village=Patient | |||
| 4 | transform | shall | you | yourself | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know | future | I | you | any disguise | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=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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