The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 65
Follow this path, and when you reach the mountain you will find it covered with stones.
Who acts: you, mountain · What happens: follow, reach, find, cover · To what, where: path, mountain
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 | Follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 path | det |
| 3 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Follow | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 find | cc |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 reach | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 reach | nsubj |
| 8 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mountain | det |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reach | obj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Follow | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 find | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 stones | case |
| 17 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 covered | obl |
| 18 | . | . | 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 | this path | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | present | you | the mountain | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | future | you | mountain | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cover | participle | mountain not said here | with stones | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=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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