The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 70
Then go, quite alone, down a road that you will find on your right hand, looking southwards.
Who acts: you · What happens: go, find, look · To what, where: road, right hand
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. 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.
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 go | advmod |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 alone | punct |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 alone | advmod |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 go | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 road | punct |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 road | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 go | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 find | 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 | 9 road | acl:relcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hand | amod |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looking | punct |
| 19 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 find | advcl |
| 20 | southwards | southwards | ADV | _ | 19 looking | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | 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 | a road | then | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme down road=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | find | future | you | a road | your right hand | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | |||
| 3 | look | gerund | you not said here | southwards property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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