The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 55
‘It is in the depth of the forest, and this road will lead you there.
Who acts: dream, road · What happens: be, lead · To what, where: depth, you
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dream, road), 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 | _ | 6 depth | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 depth | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 depth | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 depth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 depth | det |
| 6 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 depth | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lead | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lead | cc |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 road | det |
| 13 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lead | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 lead | aux |
| 15 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 depth | parataxis |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 lead | obj |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 lead | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 depth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | dream | the depth | of the forest | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lead | future | this road | you | there | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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