The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 26
‘I shall go with you,’ she answered, ‘for, except you, I have no one in the world, and I have a feeling that if we set out together we shall be lucky.’
Who acts: I, sister, you, we · What happens: go, answer, have, set out, be · To what, where: one, world, feeling
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sister, you, we), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | CCONJ | _ | 19 have | cc |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 you | punct |
| 15 | except | except | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 you | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | conj |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 world | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 world | det |
| 24 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 have | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 have | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 feeling | det |
| 30 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 lucky | mark |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 set | mark |
| 33 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 set | nsubj |
| 34 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 lucky | advcl |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 set | compound:prt |
| 36 | together | together | ADV | _ | 34 set | advmod |
| 37 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 lucky | nsubj |
| 38 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 lucky | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 lucky | cop |
| 40 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 feeling | acl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | shall | I | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | sister | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | present | you | no one | the world | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | |||
| 4 | have | present | I | a feeling | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient | ||||
| 5 | set out a condition, not said to happen | present | we | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | shall | we | a feeling not said here | lucky property | tree rules |
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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