The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 4
So labour at your Alphabet, For by that learning shall you get To lands where Fairies may be met.
Who acts: labour · What happens: get, meet · To what, where: Fairies
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 (labour), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 13 get | advmod |
| 2 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Alphabet | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Alphabet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Alphabet | alphabet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 labour | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 learning | punct |
| 7 | For | for | ADP | _ | 10 learning | case |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 learning | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 learning | det |
| 10 | learning | learning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 labour | conj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | To | to | ADP | _ | 15 lands | case |
| 15 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 get | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 met | advmod |
| 17 | Fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 met | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 met | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 met | aux:pass |
| 20 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 lands | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | shall | labour at your Alphabet and that learning | to lands result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result | ||||
| 2 | meet | may · passive | Fairies | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
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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