The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 19
Before you can do that, you have a difficult task before you.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, have · To what, where: that, difficult task
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 have | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 task | det |
| 10 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 task | amod |
| 11 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 have | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | you | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | present | you | a difficult task | before you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/38/19/