The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 98
If I can win through this, I shall reach a river with only one ford, where a lady in black will be seated.
Who acts: I · What happens: win, reach, seat · To what, where: this, river, lady
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 win | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 win | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 win | aux |
| 4 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 reach | advcl |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 win | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 win | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 reach | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 reach | aux |
| 10 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reach | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 ford | case |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 one | advmod |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 ford | nummod |
| 16 | ford | ford | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reach | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seated | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 seated | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lady | det |
| 20 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 black | case |
| 22 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lady | nmod |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 seated | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 seated | aux:pass |
| 25 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 ford | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win a condition, not said to happen | can | I | this | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reach | shall | I | a river | with one ford | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent river=Theme | |||
| 3 | seat | future · passive | a lady in black | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
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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