The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 56
When you have got there, just turn the shoes so that the toes point this way, and then they will come home again of their own accord.’
Who acts: you, toes · What happens: get, turn, point, come · To what, where: shoes, way
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, toes), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 turn | csubj |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 turn | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 turn | advmod |
| 8 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shoes | det |
| 10 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 turn | obj |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 point | mark |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 so | fixed |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 toes | det |
| 14 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 point | nsubj |
| 15 | point | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turn | advcl |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 point | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 come | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 come | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 come | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 turn | conj |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 accord | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 accord | nmod:poss |
| 28 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 accord | amod |
| 29 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turn | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | you | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | turn | imperative | you not said here | the shoes | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | point | present | the toes | this way | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 4 | come | future | toes = toe | then; again | of toes's own accord; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of accord=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 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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