The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 36
You shall have the loan of my horse and carriage, and then you will get there by night; but her house is three hundred miles off, go the nearest way you will.’
Who acts: You, house · What happens: have, get, be, go, loan · To what, where: loan, nearest way, horse
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, house), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 loan | det |
| 5 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 horse | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loan | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 carriage | cc |
| 10 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 horse | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 get | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | parataxis |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 get | advmod |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 go | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 go | cc |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 house | nmod:poss |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 off | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 off | cop |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 hundred | compound |
| 26 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 miles | nummod |
| 27 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 off | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | off | off | ADV | _ | 30 go | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 off | punct |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 way | det |
| 32 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 way | amod |
| 33 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 go | obl |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 will | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 way | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | You | the loan of my horse and carriage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loan=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get | future | you | there | then; night | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | is | present | woman's house | hundred miles obl:unmarked; off property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | You not said here | the nearest way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | loan | my horse and carriage | nom loan «possession transitive»: of=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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