The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 74
When you have gone about a hundred yards into the wood the wild beasts will surround you.
Who acts: you, wild beasts · What happens: go about, surround · To what, where: hundred yards, wood, you
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, wild beasts), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 gone | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 surround | advcl |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 hundred | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hundred | det |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 yards | nummod |
| 8 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gone | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 wood | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wood | det |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beasts | det |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beasts | amod |
| 14 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 surround | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 surround | aux |
| 16 | surround | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 surround | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 surround | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go about | present · perfect | you | hundred yards | the wood | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yard=Theme | |||
| 2 | surround | future | the wild beasts | you | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-Theme |
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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