The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 109
Follow this for a day and a night.
Who acts: you · What happens: follow · To what, where: this
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), 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 | Follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Follow | obj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Follow | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 night | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 night | det |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | imperative | you not said here | this | day | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=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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