The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 50

Go out of the town by the south gate, and there you will find three little dogs of different colors; the first will be white, the second black, the third red.

Who acts: you, first · What happens: go out, find, be · To what, where: town, three little dogs

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, first), 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	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	5 town	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 town	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 gate	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gate	det
8	south	South	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gate	amod
9	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 find	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 find	cc
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 find	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 find	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 find	aux
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	conj
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 dogs	nummod
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dogs	amod
18	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 find	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 colors	case
20	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 colors	amod
21	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dogs	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 white	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 first	det
24	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 white	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 white	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 white	cop
27	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Go	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 black	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 black	det
30	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 black	amod
31	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 white	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 red	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 red	det
34	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 red	amod
35	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 white	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go out	imperative	you not said here	the town		by the south gate	tree rules
2	find	future	you	three little dogs of different colors	there		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic
3	is	future	the first			white property	tree rules
4	be		the first not said here				tree rules
5	be		the first not said here				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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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