The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 11
Walk straight to the garden and enter through a portico, into a small green wood, in the midst of which is a tree with a trunk of gold and leaves of emeralds.
Who acts: you, midst · What happens: walk, enter, be · To what, where: small green wood, portico
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, midst), 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 | Walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 5 garden | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 garden | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 garden | det |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walk | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 enter | cc |
| 7 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Walk | conj |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 portico | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 portico | det |
| 10 | portico | portico | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 enter | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wood | punct |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 wood | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wood | det |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wood | amod |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wood | amod |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walk | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 midst | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 midst | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 midst | det |
| 20 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walk | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 tree | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 tree | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 tree | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tree | det |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 midst | nmod |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 trunk | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 trunk | det |
| 28 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tree | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 gold | case |
| 30 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 trunk | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 leaves | cc |
| 32 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 gold | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 emeralds | case |
| 34 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 leaves | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | imperative | you not said here | a small green wood | to the garden result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to garden=Result | |||
| 2 | enter | present | you not said here | a portico | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through portico=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the midst | of a tree; with a trunk of gold and leaves of emeralds | tree rules |
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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