The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 13
You must climb up to the top, and then you will see a hole through which you can let yourself down into the tree.
Who acts: You · What happens: climb up, see, let down · To what, where: top, hole, yourself
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 climb | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 climb | aux |
| 3 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 climb | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 top | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 top | det |
| 7 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climb | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 see | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 climb | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hole | det |
| 15 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 let | obl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 let | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 let | aux |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hole | parataxis |
| 21 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 let | compound:prt |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 tree | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tree | det |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 let | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | must | You | the top | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | future | you | a hole | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hole=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | let down | can | you | yourself | a hole | into the tree | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=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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