The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 10
‘Oh, go with me,’ said the man; ‘if we three are together we shall easily travel through the wide world.’
Who acts: man, we · What happens: go, say, be, travel · To what, where: wide world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, we), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 go | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 travel | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 travel | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 together | mark |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 together | nsubj |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 we | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 together | cop |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 travel | advcl |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 travel | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 travel | aux |
| 21 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 22 travel | advmod |
| 22 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 25 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 world | amod |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 travel | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 travel | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 travel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | with me | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | we | together property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | travel | shall | we | the wide world | easily property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through world=Trajectory |
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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