The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 25
Blind and crippled though ye be, Mount your steeds or come by sea.’
Who acts: ye · What happens: be, come
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye), 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 | Blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Mount | advcl |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 crippled | cc |
| 3 | crippled | crippled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Blind | conj |
| 4 | though | though | ADV | _ | 8 Mount | advmod |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 Mount | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Mount | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mount | punct |
| 8 | Mount | mount | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 steeds | nmod:poss |
| 10 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Mount | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 come | cc |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Mount | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mount | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mount | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | ye | mount, though property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | ye not said here | by sea | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=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 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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