The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 70

I must go back at once, so as to reach the road from which I started before day dawns.'

Who acts: I · What happens: go back, reach, start · To what, where: road

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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 go	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reach	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 reach	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 reach	mark
10	to	to	PART	_	11 reach	mark
11	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 road	det
13	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reach	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 started	obl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 started	nsubj
17	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 road	acl:relcl
18	before	before	ADP	_	20 dawns	case
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dawns	compound
20	dawns	dawn	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 started	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go back	must	I				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	reach	to-infinitive	I not said here	the road			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent road=Theme
3	start	past	I		the road	dawn	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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