The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 70

You will be a long time in getting to it, if ever you get to it at all; but you shall have the loan of my horse, and then you can ride on it to an old woman who is a neighbor of mine: perhaps she can tell you about him.

Who acts: You, old woman, woman · What happens: be, get, have, ride, tell, loan · To what, where: long time, drop, all, loan, neighbor, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, old woman, woman), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 time	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 time	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 time	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 getting	mark
8	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 time	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 getting	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 get	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 get	mark
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 get	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 get	nsubj
15	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 getting	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 get	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 get	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 have	cc
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 time	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 loan	det
26	loan	loan	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 horse	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 horse	nmod:poss
29	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 loan	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ride	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 ride	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 ride	advmod
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 ride	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 ride	aux
35	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 have	parataxis
36	on	on	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 ride	obl
38	to	to	ADP	_	41 woman	case
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 woman	det
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 woman	amod
41	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ride	obl
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 neighbor	nsubj
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 neighbor	cop
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 neighbor	det
45	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 woman	conj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 mine	case
47	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 neighbor	nmod
48	:	:	PUNCT	_	52 tell	punct
49	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	52 tell	advmod
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 tell	nsubj
51	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 tell	aux
52	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 ride	conj
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 tell	iobj
54	about	about	ADP	_	55 him	case
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 tell	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	future	You	a long time					tree rules
2	get	gerund	You not said here		drop				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to it=Result
3	get a condition, not said to happen	present	you		drop	all	ever		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to it=Result
4	have	shall	you	the loan of my horse					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loan=Patient
5	ride	can	you			drop	then	to a old woman and a neighbor	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to woman=Trajectory
6	is a	present	a old woman and a neighbor	a neighbor				of mine	tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	can	woman		you			about horse; perhaps property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about he=Topic
8	loan			my horse					nom loan «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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