The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 65
The mountain will open to let you in, and the hunters will follow you.
Who acts: mountain, hunters · What happens: open, let in, follow · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountain, hunters), 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 mountain | det |
| 2 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 open | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | aux |
| 4 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 let | mark |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 open | advcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 let | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 follow | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 follow | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hunters | det |
| 12 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 follow | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 follow | aux |
| 14 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 open | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 follow | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | future | the mountain | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let in | to-infinitive | the mountain not said here | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | future | the hunters | you | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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