The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 75

‘Follow me, and let us go home together,’ said the snake, and the girl followed his through the forest and along the green paths, till they came to a great lake, where they stopped to rest.

Who acts: you, us, girl, paths · What happens: follow, let, go, say, come, stop · To what, where: me, us, snake, forest, great lake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, girl, paths), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Follow	punct
2	Follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Follow	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 let	cc
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Follow	conj
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	together	together	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Follow	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 snake	det
15	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 followed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 followed	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 girl	det
19	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 followed	nsubj
20	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 forest	nmod:poss
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 forest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 forest	det
24	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 followed	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 paths	cc
26	along	along	ADP	_	29 paths	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 paths	det
28	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 paths	amod
29	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 forest	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 came	punct
31	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 came	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 came	nsubj
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 followed	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 lake	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 lake	det
36	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 lake	amod
37	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 stopped	punct
39	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 stopped	advmod
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 stopped	nsubj
41	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 lake	acl:relcl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 rest	mark
43	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 stopped	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Follow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	imperative	you not said here	me			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	us			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	us not said here			home, together property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	you not said here	the snake			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent snake=Topic
5	follow	past	the girl	feast's forest and the green paths			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme
6	come	past	paths = path		a great lake		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location
7	stop	past	paths = path				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
8	rest	to-infinitive	paths = path not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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