The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 40
At the gate my messenger awaits you, and you shall take again your body which you left behind, and he will show you what you are to do.
Who acts: messenger, you, body · What happens: await, take, leave behind, show, be · To what, where: you, gate, body · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (messenger, you, body), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 gate | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gate | det |
| 3 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 awaits | obl |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 messenger | nmod:poss |
| 5 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 awaits | nsubj |
| 6 | awaits | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 awaits | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 take | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 take | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | aux |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 awaits | conj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 take | advmod |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 body | nmod:poss |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 left | nsubj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 left | nsubj |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 body | acl:relcl |
| 19 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 18 left | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 show | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 show | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 show | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 show | aux |
| 24 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 awaits | advcl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 show | iobj |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 30 do | obj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 do | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 do | cop |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 do | mark |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 show | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 awaits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | await | present | my messenger | you | the gate | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | shall | you | your body | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | |||
| 3 | leave behind | past | your body | behind property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | show | future | messenger | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is | present | you | do property | 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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