The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 67

As you go you will hear scoffs and laughs behind you; it will be the stones that mock.

Who acts: you, way, stones · What happens: go, hear, laugh, be, mock · To what, where: scoffs, stones

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, way, stones), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 go	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	advcl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 hear	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	scoffs	scoff	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hear	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 laughs	cc
9	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	conj
10	behind	behind	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 laughs	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 stones	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stones	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 stones	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 stones	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stones	det
17	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hear	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 mock	nsubj
19	mock	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 stones	acl:relcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	present	you			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	future	you	scoffs		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer scoff=Stimulus
3	laugh	present	you not said here		behind you	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	future	way	the stones		tree rules
5	mock	present	the stones			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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