The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 54
‘Darkness behind me, but light on my way, That the Prince may not see where I’m going to-day!’
Who acts: Prince, I · What happens: not see, be, go · To what, where: That
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Darkness | punct |
| 2 | Darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Darkness | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 light | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 light | cc |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Darkness | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 light | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 12 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 see | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Prince | det |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 see | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 see | advmod |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Darkness | conj |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 ’m | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 ’m | nsubj |
| 20 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | advcl |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 ’m | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 day | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 to | punct |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 going | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Darkness | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Darkness | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | may | the Prince | That | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | gerund | I not said here | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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