The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 23

In the wood is a path branching to the right; go along this path until thou comest to a space of grass with a mound in the middle of it.

Who acts: path, thou · What happens: be, branch, go, come · To what, where: path, wood, space

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (path, thou), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 wood	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wood	det
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 path	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 path	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 path	det
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	branching	branch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 path	acl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 right	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 right	det
10	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 branching	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
12	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 path	parataxis
13	along	along	ADP	_	15 path	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 path	det
15	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
16	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 comest	mark
17	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 comest	nsubj
18	comest	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 go	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 space	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 space	det
21	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 comest	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 grass	case
23	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 space	nmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 mound	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 mound	det
26	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 space	nmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 middle	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 middle	det
29	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mound	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 middle	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 path	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a path	the wood		tree rules
2	branch	gerund	a path not said here			to the right	vn differ-23.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	infinitive			this path		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along path=Initial_Location
4	come	present	thou		a space of grass with a mound in the middle of wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to space=Initial_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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