The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 34
Perhaps he has taken you to see all the countries of the world and the peoples, the cold waste lands and the burning deserts, the many coloured men and the wild creatures in the sea and in the woods, so that you may earn many things, but come gladly home again.
Who acts: boy, you · What happens: take, see, earn, come · To what, where: you, countries, sea, many things
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 taken | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 taken | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 taken | advcl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 countries | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 countries | det |
| 10 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 see | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 countries | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 peoples | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 peoples | det |
| 16 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 countries | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lands | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lands | det |
| 19 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lands | amod |
| 20 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lands | compound |
| 21 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 countries | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 deserts | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 deserts | det |
| 24 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deserts | compound |
| 25 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lands | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 men | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 men | det |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 men | amod |
| 29 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 men | amod |
| 30 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lands | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 creatures | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 creatures | det |
| 33 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 creatures | amod |
| 34 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 countries | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 sea | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 sea | det |
| 37 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 woods | cc |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 woods | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 woods | det |
| 41 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 sea | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 earn | punct |
| 43 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 47 earn | mark |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 so | fixed |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 earn | nsubj |
| 46 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 earn | aux |
| 47 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 see | conj |
| 48 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 things | amod |
| 49 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 earn | obj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 come | punct |
| 51 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 52 come | cc |
| 52 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 earn | conj |
| 53 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 52 come | advmod |
| 54 | home | home | ADV | _ | 52 come | advmod |
| 55 | again | again | ADV | _ | 52 come | advmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · perfect | boy | you | perhaps property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | boy not said here | all countries of the world and the peoples and the cold waste lands and the burning deserts and the many coloured men and the wild creatures | the sea and the woods | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | earn | may | you | many things | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | you not said here | again | gladly, home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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