The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 7
You may walk in the garden, and you may go into all the rooms in the palace, except the room at the back in the right-hand corner; into that you must not enter, for harm would befall you.’
Who acts: You, harm · What happens: walk, go, not enter, befall · To what, where: garden, rooms, you
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, harm), 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 | 3 walk | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 walk | aux |
| 3 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walk | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 go | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 walk | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 rooms | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 rooms | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rooms | det |
| 15 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 go | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 palace | det |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rooms | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 room | punct |
| 20 | except | except | ADP | _ | 22 room | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 room | det |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 back | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 back | det |
| 25 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 room | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 corner | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 corner | det |
| 28 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hand | amod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 right | punct |
| 30 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 corner | compound |
| 31 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 back | nmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 enter | punct |
| 33 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 38 enter | mark |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 enter | mark |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 enter | nsubj |
| 36 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 enter | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 enter | advmod |
| 38 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 walk | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 befall | punct |
| 40 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 43 befall | mark |
| 41 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 befall | nsubj |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 befall | aux |
| 43 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 walk | conj |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 befall | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walk | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | may | You | the garden | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | go | may | you | all rooms in the palace | except the room at the back in the hand corner | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | not enter | must | you | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | befall | would | harm | you | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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