The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 3

For every child should understand That letters from the first were planned To guide us into Fairy Land

What happens: understand, plan, guide · To what, where: letters, first, us, Fairy Land

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: 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 child	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 understand	obl
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 understand	aux
5	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 letters	det
7	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 understand	obj
8	from	from	SCONJ	_	12 planned	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 first	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 planned	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 planned	aux:pass
12	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 understand	advcl
13	To	to	PART	_	14 guide	mark
14	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 planned	xcomp
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 guide	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 Land	case
17	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Land	amod
18	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 guide	obl

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	understand	should	that letters		for every child	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus
2	plan	past · passive	the first			tree rules
3	guide not said to happen	to-infinitive	us	Fairy Land		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme into land=Destination

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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