The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 31
But go straight along this road for another year, and you will come to a hut in which my father lives.
Who acts: you, father · What happens: go, come, live · To what, where: road, hut
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 go | cc |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 2 go | advmod |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 road | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 road | det |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 go | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 year | case |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 come | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 go | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 hut | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hut | det |
| 17 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 lives | obl |
| 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 | 17 hut | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | this road | year | straight property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along road=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | come | future | you | a hut | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | live | present | my father | a hut | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=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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