The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 71
Woe to anyone who meets him in the garden, for it is impossible to escape from him.
What happens: meet, be, escape · To what, where: king, garden
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: 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 | Woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 anyone | case |
| 3 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Woe | nmod |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 meets | nsubj |
| 5 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 meets | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 garden | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 garden | det |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meets | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 impossible | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 impossible | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 impossible | expl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 impossible | cop |
| 14 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 meets | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 escape | mark |
| 16 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 impossible | xcomp |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 escape | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Woe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | king | the garden | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | escape | to-infinitive | from king | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from he=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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