The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 56

Set out early to-morrow morning, and when you have passed the iron gate throw the clew of thread before you, which will roll till it comes to the gates of the castle.

Who acts: you, clew, gate · What happens: set out, pass, throw, roll, come · To what, where: iron gate, clew, gates

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, clew, gate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:3818): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Set	compound:prt
3	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Set	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 morrow	case
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 to	punct
6	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 morning	compound
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Set	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 throw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 throw	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 passed	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 passed	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 passed	aux
13	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 throw	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gate	det
15	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gate	compound
16	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 passed	obj
17	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Set	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 clew	det
19	clew	clew	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 throw	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 thread	case
21	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 clew	nmod
22	before	before	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 throw	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 roll	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 roll	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 roll	aux
27	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 clew	acl:relcl
28	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 comes	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 comes	nsubj
30	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 roll	advcl
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 gates	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 gates	det
33	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 comes	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 castle	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 castle	det
36	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gates	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set out	imperative	you not said here			morning	early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	present · perfect	you	the iron gate				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Trajectory
3	throw	infinitive	you not said here	the clew of thread		before you		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent clew=Theme before you=Destination
4	roll	future	the clew of thread					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	present	gate		the gates of the castle			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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