The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 128
‘He has gone over the hill of poison,’ said she, ‘and there you cannot follow him without horse-shoes on your hands and feet.
Who acts: hoodie, girl, you · What happens: go, say, not follow · To what, where: hill, hoodie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hoodie, girl, you), 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 | _ | 4 gone | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 hill | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hill | det |
| 7 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 poison | case |
| 9 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hill | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 21 follow | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 follow | cc |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 follow | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 follow | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 follow | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 follow | advmod |
| 21 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | parataxis |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 follow | obj |
| 23 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 shoes | case |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shoes | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 horse | punct |
| 26 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 follow | obl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 hands | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hands | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 shoes | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 feet | cc |
| 31 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hands | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · perfect | hoodie | the hill of poison | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over hill=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not follow | can | you | hoodie | there | without horse shoes on your hands and feet | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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