The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 25
That is the Land of Souls, but no man enters it without leaving his body behind him.
Who acts: That, man · What happens: be, enter, leave · To what, where: Land, body
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, man), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Land | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Land | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Land | det |
| 4 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Souls | case |
| 6 | Souls | Soul | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 Land | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 enters | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 enters | cc |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enters | nsubj |
| 11 | enters | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Land | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 enters | obj |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 leaving | mark |
| 14 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 enters | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 body | nmod:poss |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaving | obj |
| 17 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 leaving | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Land | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | the Land | of Souls | tree rules | |||
| 2 | enter | present | no man | Land | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | no man not said here | heart's body | behind heart | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent body=Theme behind he=Location |
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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