The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 65
‘It’s easily seen that you have heard nothing of this forest, that you rush so blindly to meet your doom.
Who acts: you, your · What happens: see, hear, rush, meet, doom · To what, where: wood, nothing, doom
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 4 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 5 seen | advmod |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 rush | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 heard | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | aux |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 seen | advcl |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 heard | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nothing | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rush | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 rush | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 rush | nsubj |
| 17 | rush | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 blindly | advmod |
| 19 | blindly | blindly | ADV | _ | 17 rush | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 meet | mark |
| 21 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 rush | advcl |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 doom | nmod:poss |
| 23 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meet | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 rush | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · passive | wood | easily property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hear | present · perfect | you | nothing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | rush | present | you | blindly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | you not said here | your doom | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doom=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | doom | your | nom doom «event transitive»: poss=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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