The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 107

Nevertheless, as you are Arthur’s men, I will guide you to the place where there is an animal older than I’; and the stag ran before them till he reached the owl of Cwm Cawlwyd.

Who acts: you, I, animal, stag · What happens: be, guide, run, reach · To what, where: you, owl

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, animal, stag), 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	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	12 guide	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nevertheless	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 are	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 are	nsubj
5	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 guide	advcl
6	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 men	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Arthur	case
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 are	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 are	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 guide	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 guide	aux
12	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 guide	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 place	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 place	det
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 older	obl
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 is	advmod
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 is	expl
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 older	cop
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 animal	det
21	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 older	nsubj
22	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 guide	parataxis
23	than	than	ADP	_	24 I	case
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 older	obl
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 guide	punct
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 ran	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 ran	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stag	det
29	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ran	nsubj
30	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 guide	parataxis
31	before	before	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ran	obl
33	till	till	SCONJ	_	35 reached	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 reached	nsubj
35	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ran	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 owl	det
37	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 reached	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Cwm	case
39	Cwm	Cwm	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 owl	nmod
40	Cawlwyd	Cawlwyd	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Cwm	flat
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 guide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	you				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	guide	future	I	you		nevertheless property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	is	present	a animal			to the place; than I; old property	tree rules
4	run	past	the stag		before men = man		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Trajectory
5	reach	past	stag	the owl of Cwm			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent owl=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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