The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 44
The way is long, and I travel slowly; but, sooner or later, I shall be sure to arrive.
Who acts: way, I · What happens: be, travel, arrive
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 long | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | cop |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 travel | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 travel | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 travel | nsubj |
| 8 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | conj |
| 9 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 8 travel | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 sure | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 sooner | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sooner | punct |
| 13 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 sure | advmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 later | cc |
| 15 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 sooner | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sooner | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 sure | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 sure | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sure | cop |
| 20 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 long | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 arrive | mark |
| 22 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sure | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the way | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | travel | present | I | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | shall | I | soon, sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | arrive | to-infinitive | I not said here | 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 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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