The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 57
'To get there,' said the dove, 'you must follow the wind, which to-day is blowing towards the castle.'
Who acts: you · What happens: get, say, follow, blow · To what, where: dove, wind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 get | mark |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 get | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dove | det |
| 9 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 follow | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 follow | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 follow | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 follow | aux |
| 14 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wind | det |
| 16 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 follow | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 blowing | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 blowing | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 day | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 to | punct |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 blowing | obl |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 blowing | aux |
| 23 | blowing | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 wind | acl |
| 24 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 26 castle | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 castle | det |
| 26 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 blowing | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 follow | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | to-infinitive | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the dove | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | follow | must | you | the wind | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme | ||||
| 4 | blow | present · progressive | the wind | day | towards the castle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Patient towards castle=Recipient |
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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