The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 26

‘Now, go into that wood, and stop in front of the first tree, bow three times, and then strike the tree with your axe, fall on your knees on the ground, with your face on the earth, and remain there till you are raised up.

Who acts: you · What happens: go, stop, bow, strike, fall, remain · To what, where: wood, front, tree, knees, you

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	4 go	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 go	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stop	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stop	cc
10	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 go	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 front	case
12	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stop	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 tree	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tree	det
15	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 tree	amod
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 front	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bow	punct
18	bow	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 go	parataxis
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 times	nummod
20	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bow	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 strike	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 strike	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 strike	advmod
24	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 bow	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tree	det
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 strike	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 axe	case
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 axe	nmod:poss
29	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 strike	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fall	punct
31	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 strike	parataxis
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 knees	case
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 knees	nmod:poss
34	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fall	obl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 ground	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ground	det
37	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fall	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 face	punct
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 face	case
40	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 face	nmod:poss
41	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fall	obl
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 earth	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 earth	det
44	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 face	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 remain	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 remain	cc
47	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 go	conj
48	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 remain	advmod
49	till	till	SCONJ	_	52 raised	mark
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 raised	nsubj
51	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 raised	aux:pass
52	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 remain	advcl
53	up	up	ADP	_	52 raised	compound:prt
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here		that wood	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location
2	stop	infinitive	you not said here		front of the first tree			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location
3	bow	present				time		vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	strike	infinitive		the tree		then	with your axe	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tree=Patient with axe=Instrument
5	fall	infinitive			your knees		on the ground; with your face on the earth	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
6	remain	present	you not said here		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	raise up	present · passive		you				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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