The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 35
Others ride behind, and you will do well to retire before this whirlwind of destruction comes upon you.’
Who acts: Others, you, whirlwind · What happens: ride, do, retire, come
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Others, you, whirlwind), 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ride | nsubj |
| 2 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 2 ride | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 do | cc |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ride | conj |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 do | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 retire | mark |
| 11 | retire | retire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 do | advcl |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 comes | mark |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 whirlwind | det |
| 14 | whirlwind | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 comes | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 destruction | case |
| 16 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 whirlwind | nmod |
| 17 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 retire | advcl |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 comes | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ride | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | present | Others | behind property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | future | you | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | retire | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | present | this whirlwind of destruction | upon you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon you=Location |
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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