The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 28

‘But if you go straight along this road for a year, you will reach a hut where my father lives, and possibly he may be able to tell you.’

Who acts: you, father · What happens: go, reach, live, be, tell · To what, where: road, hut, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, father), 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	_	16 reach	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 reach	cc
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 go	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 reach	advcl
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 road	advmod
7	along	along	ADP	_	9 road	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 year	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 reach	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 reach	aux
16	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hut	det
18	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reach	obj
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 lives	advmod
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lives	nsubj
22	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 hut	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 able	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 able	cc
25	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	29 able	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 able	nsubj
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 able	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	cop
29	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 reach	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 tell	mark
31	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	xcomp
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 tell	iobj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 reach	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 reach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go a condition, not said to happen	present	you			this road	year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along road=Initial_Location
2	reach	future	you	a hut					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hut=Theme
3	live	present	my father						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	may	father					able, possibly property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	father not said here		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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