The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 71
This road is planted all the way with cedars of Lebanon; and after going down it a long way you will come at last to a magnificent castle.
Who acts: you · What happens: plant, go down, come · To what, where: road, last
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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 road | det |
| 2 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 planted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 planted | aux:pass |
| 4 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 way | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 planted | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 cedars | case |
| 9 | cedars | cedar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 planted | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Lebanon | case |
| 11 | Lebanon | Lebanon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cedars | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 come | cc |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 going | mark |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 come | advcl |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 going | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 going | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 way | amod |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 going | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 come | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 planted | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 last | case |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 come | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 castle | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 castle | det |
| 28 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 castle | amod |
| 29 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 planted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | present · passive | this road | with cedars of Lebanon; all way obl:unmarked | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with cedar=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | go down | gerund | you not said here | road | a long way obl:unmarked; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient it=Extent | |||
| 3 | come | future | you | last | to a magnificent castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_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 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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