The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 5
And going where this pathway goes, You too, at last, may find, who knows?
Who acts: pathway · What happens: go, find, know · To what, where: You, last · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pathway), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 goes | cc |
| 2 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 goes | advcl |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 goes | advmod |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 pathway | det |
| 5 | pathway | pathway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | nsubj |
| 6 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 goes | punct |
| 8 | You | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 goes | obj |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 goes | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 find | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 last | punct |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 goes | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knows | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 knows | nsubj |
| 18 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | ccomp |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | this pathway not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | present | this pathway | You | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | may | this pathway not said here | last | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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