The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 59
Follow the wall till you come to a heavy iron gate.
Who acts: you · What happens: follow, come · To what, where: wall, heavy iron gate
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 (you), 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 | Follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wall | det |
| 3 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Follow | obj |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Follow | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 gate | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 gate | det |
| 9 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gate | amod |
| 10 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gate | compound |
| 11 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | imperative | you not said here | the wall | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | present | you | a heavy iron gate | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=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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