The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 114
‘To-morrow, when you take the bread to the mountain, you shall pray my Destiny to speak to yours, and entreat her to leave you in peace.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, pray, speak, entreat, leave · To what, where: bread, mountain, Destiny, yours, you, peace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. 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.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:1946): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 pray | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 morrow | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 To | punct |
| 4 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pray | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morrow | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 take | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 take | nsubj |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 pray | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bread | det |
| 10 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 mountain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mountain | det |
| 13 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 pray | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 pray | aux |
| 17 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 Destiny | nmod:poss |
| 19 | Destiny | destiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pray | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 speak | mark |
| 21 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 pray | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 yours | case |
| 23 | yours | yours | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 speak | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 entreat | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 entreat | cc |
| 26 | entreat | entreat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 pray | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 entreat | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 leave | mark |
| 29 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 entreat | xcomp |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 leave | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 peace | case |
| 32 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 leave | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | you | the bread | the mountain | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bread=Theme to mountain=Destination | |||
| 2 | pray | shall | you | my Destiny | to morrow | tree rules | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | you not said here | yours | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to yours=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | entreat | infinitive | you not said here | Destiny | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | leave | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | peace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme in peace=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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