The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 28
If you meet anyone on the way, take him with you.’
Who acts: you · What happens: meet, take · To what, where: anyone, way, Palace
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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 meet | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 meet | nsubj |
| 3 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | advcl |
| 4 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 meet | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meet | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 meet | punct |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 take | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 take | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet a condition, not said to happen | present | you | anyone | the way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | take | imperative | you not said here | Palace | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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