The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 29
If ever you are in Nether Lochaber, go to the Fairy Hill, and you may hear the music yourself, as grown-up people have done, but you must goon a fine day.
Who acts: you, Nether, grown people · What happens: be, go, hear, grow up, do, goon · To what, where: Nether, Fairy Hill, music
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Nether, grown people), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 2 ever | mark |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 Nether | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 Nether | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Nether | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Nether | case |
| 6 | Nether | Nether | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 go | nsubj |
| 7 | Lochaber | Lochaber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Nether | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Nether | punct |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Hill | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Hill | det |
| 12 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Hill | compound |
| 13 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hear | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hear | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 hear | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 hear | aux |
| 18 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 music | det |
| 20 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hear | obj |
| 21 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 hear | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 done | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 done | mark |
| 24 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 people | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 up | punct |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 grown | compound:prt |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 done | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 done | aux |
| 29 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 go | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 goon | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 goon | cc |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 goon | nsubj |
| 33 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 goon | aux |
| 34 | goon | goon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 done | obl |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 day | det |
| 36 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 day | amod |
| 37 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 done | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | Nether | ever | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | infinitive | Nether | the Fairy Hill | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | hear | may | you | the music | yourself obl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | do | present · perfect | grown people | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | goon | must | you | 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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