The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 59
Should you send an envoy to the island he will take ten years to get there and ten more to return—twenty years in all.
Who acts: you, Majesty · What happens: send, take, get, return · To what, where: envoy, ten more
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Majesty), 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 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 send | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 send | nsubj |
| 3 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 envoy | det |
| 5 | envoy | envoy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 send | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 island | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 island | det |
| 8 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 take | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 send | parataxis |
| 12 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 take | advcl |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 get | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 more | cc |
| 18 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 more | nummod |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 get | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 return | mark |
| 21 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 more | acl |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 years | punct |
| 23 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 take | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 all | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 years | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | should | you | a envoy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent envoy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | future | Majesty | year | to the island result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to island=Result | |||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | Majesty not said here | ten more | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | return | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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