The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 40
There thou wilt find an open space, and in the midst of it a tall tree.
Who acts: thou · What happens: find · To what, where: open 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 (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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 find | expl |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 find | nsubj |
| 3 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 space | det |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 space | amod |
| 7 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tree | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tree | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 midst | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 midst | det |
| 12 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tree | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 midst | nmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 16 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tree | amod |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | thou | a open space | there | a tall tree obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=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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