The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 51
‘Go to the mountain that is far off yonder, and you will find what you seek.’
Who acts: you, mountain · What happens: go, be, find, seek · To what, where: mountain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mountain), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 mountain | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mountain | det |
| 5 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 yonder | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 yonder | cop |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 yonder | advmod |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 yonder | case |
| 10 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 5 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 find | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Go | conj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 seek | obj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 seek | nsubj |
| 18 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | the mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the mountain | far, yonder property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | future | you | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seek | present | you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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