The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 39

‘“Take that path,” said he, “that leads to the head of this grassy glade, and go up the wood till thou reachest the top.

Who acts: anger, that, thou · What happens: take, say, lead, go up, reach · To what, where: path, wood, top · 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 (anger, that, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 Take	punct
2	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 Take	punct
3	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 path	det
5	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Take	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Take	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 Take	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 leads	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 leads	punct
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 leads	nsubj
13	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 head	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 head	det
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leads	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 glade	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 glade	det
19	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 glade	amod
20	glade	glade	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 head	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 go	cc
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 leads	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 go	compound:prt
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wood	det
26	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obj
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 reachest	mark
28	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 reachest	nsubj
29	reachest	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 go	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 top	det
31	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 reachest	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	infinitive		that path		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	anger			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lead in a quote	present	that		to the head of this grassy glade	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to head=Patient
4	go up in a quote	infinitive	that not said here	the wood		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient wood=Extent
5	reach in a quote	present	thou	the top		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=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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