The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 1

'Go straight down the path in front of you,' continued the fairy, smiling as she watched her; 'go straight down the path and you will soon reach a little hut where you will find shelter.'

Who acts: you, fairy · What happens: go, continue, smile, watch, reach, find · To what, where: front, fairy, her, path, little hut, shelter

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fairy), 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	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 path	advmod
4	down	down	ADP	_	6 path	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 path	det
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Go	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 front	case
8	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Go	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 front	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 continued	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 continued	punct
13	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fairy	det
15	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 continued	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 smiling	punct
17	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 continued	advcl
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 watched	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 watched	nsubj
20	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 smiling	ccomp
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 watched	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
24	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	conj
25	straight	straight	ADV	_	28 path	advmod
26	down	down	ADP	_	28 path	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 path	det
28	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 reach	cc
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 reach	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 reach	aux
32	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 reach	advmod
33	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 go	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 hut	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hut	amod
36	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reach	obj
37	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 find	advmod
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 find	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 find	aux
40	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 hut	acl:relcl
41	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 find	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
43	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here		front of you	down the path	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme down path=Initial_Location
2	continue	past		the fairy			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme
3	smile	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	watch	past	fairy	her = she			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	go	infinitive	you not said here		the path		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme down path=Initial_Location
6	reach	future	you	a little hut		soon property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hut=Theme
7	find	future	you	shelter			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Topic

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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