The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 47
If thou turnest to flee, he will overtake thee.
Who acts: thou, horse · What happens: turn, flee, overtake · To what, where: thee
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, horse), 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 | _ | 3 turnest | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 turnest | nsubj |
| 3 | turnest | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 overtake | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 flee | mark |
| 5 | flee | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turnest | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turnest | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 overtake | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 overtake | aux |
| 9 | overtake | overtake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 overtake | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 overtake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | flee | to-infinitive | thou not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | overtake | future | horse | thee | tree rules |
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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