The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 108
You must go on along this road till it forks into three; take neither the right hand nor the left, but the middle path.
Who acts: You, road · What happens: go on, fork, take · To what, where: road, three, right hand
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, road), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | along | along | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 road | det |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 forks | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 forks | nsubj |
| 10 | forks | fork | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 three | case |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 forks | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 15 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 hand | cc:preconj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hand | det |
| 17 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hand | amod |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 19 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 left | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 left | det |
| 21 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hand | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 path | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 path | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 path | det |
| 25 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 path | amod |
| 26 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | must | You | this road | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along road=Location | ||||
| 2 | fork | present | road | three | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | the right hand nor the left | the middle path obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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