The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 26

Around him graze a thousand beasts, all of different kinds, for he is the guardian of that wood, and it is he who will tell thee which way to go in order to find the adventure thou art in quest of.”

Who acts: you, hunger, wood · What happens: graze, be, tell, go, find · To what, where: thousand beasts, hunger, way, thee, order, adventure · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, hunger, wood), 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	Around	around	ADP	_	2 him	case
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 graze	obl
3	graze	graze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thousand	det
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 beasts	nummod
6	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 graze	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 all	punct
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 beasts	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 kinds	case
10	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kinds	amod
11	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 all	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 guardian	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	17 guardian	case
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 guardian	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 guardian	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 guardian	det
17	guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 graze	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 wood	case
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 wood	det
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 guardian	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tell	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 he	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 he	cop
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 tell	nsubj
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 tell	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 tell	aux
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 graze	conj
29	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 tell	iobj
30	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	31 way	det
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tell	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 go	mark
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 way	acl
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 order	case
35	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 go	obl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 find	mark
37	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 go	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 adventure	det
39	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 find	obj
40	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	41 art	nsubj
41	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 adventure	acl:relcl
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 quest	case
43	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 art	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	43 quest	case
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 graze	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 graze	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	graze	imperative	you not said here	thousand beasts			around hunger	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Experiencer
2	is	present	hunger				for the guardian; of that wood	tree rules
3	is a	present	wood	hunger				tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	future	hunger	which way	thee			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient way=Topic
5	go	to-infinitive	hunger not said here	which way not said here		order		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in order=Location
6	find	to-infinitive	hunger not said here	the adventure				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Topic

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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