The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 10
Load your horse with cotton, and go by a secret passage which I will show you, which is hidden from the wild beasts, to the Serpent’s palace.
Who acts: you, secret passage · What happens: load, go, show, hide · To what, where: horse, you, wild beasts
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, secret passage), 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 | Load | load | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 horse | nmod:poss |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Load | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 cotton | case |
| 5 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Load | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 go | cc |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Load | conj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 passage | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 passage | det |
| 11 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 passage | amod |
| 12 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 show | nsubj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 show | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 show | aux |
| 16 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 passage | acl:relcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 show | iobj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hidden | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 hidden | aux:pass |
| 21 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 show | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 beasts | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 beasts | det |
| 24 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 beasts | amod |
| 25 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hidden | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 palace | punct |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 palace | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Serpent | det |
| 29 | Serpent | Serpent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 palace | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 Serpent | case |
| 31 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hidden | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Load | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | load | imperative | you not said here | your horse | with cotton | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Destination with cotton=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | by a secret passage | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by passage=Location | ||||
| 3 | show | future | a secret passage | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | hide | present · passive | the wild beasts | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from beast=Beneficiary |
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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