The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 20
‘Go that way, my son,’ said the old woman, pointing towards the path that led to the castle.
Who acts: old woman, path · What happens: go, say, point, lead · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, path), 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 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pointing | punct |
| 15 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 18 path | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 path | det |
| 18 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pointing | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 led | nsubj |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 path | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 castle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 castle | det |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 led | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | that way | my son vocative | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | point | gerund | the old woman not said here | towards the path | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent towards path=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | lead | past | the path | to the castle | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to castle=Patient |
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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