The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 12

It is a long road, and it would take you a year and a day to reach it, but put on these old brown shoes with holes all over them, and you will be there before you know it.

Who acts: road, it, you · What happens: be, take, reach, put, know · To what, where: long road, you, road, old brown shoes

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, it, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 road	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 road	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 road	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 road	amod
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 take	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 take	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 take	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 take	aux
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 road	parataxis
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 take	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obl:unmarked
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 day	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 year	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 reach	mark
18	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 take	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reach	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 put	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 put	cc
22	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 take	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	27 shoes	case
24	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 shoes	nsubj
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 shoes	amod
26	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 shoes	amod
27	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 put	obl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 holes	case
29	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shoes	nmod
30	all	all	ADV	_	32 them	advmod
31	over	over	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 put	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 there	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 there	cc
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 there	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 there	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 there	cop
38	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 put	advmod
39	before	before	SCONJ	_	41 know	mark
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 know	nsubj
41	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 there	advcl
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 know	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 road	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	road	a long road					tree rules
2	take	would	it		you		year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
3	reach	to-infinitive		road					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	put	participle				old brown shoes with holes		over holes = hole	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shoe=Destination
5	is	future	you					there property	tree rules
6	know	present	you	road					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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