The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 2
“Your comrade is a long way off by now; you had better see if you can overtake him.”
Who acts: comrade, you · What happens: be, have, see, overtake · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (comrade, 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 | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 3 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 off | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 off | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 off | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | off | off | ADV | _ | 13 had | advmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 now | case |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 off | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 had | xcomp |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 better | csubj |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 overtake | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 overtake | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 overtake | aux |
| 19 | overtake | overtake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 see | ccomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 overtake | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Your comrade | a long way obl:unmarked; off property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | you | good property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | overtake a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | you | king | tree rules |
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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