The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 18
When you reach the bottom of the tree you will find yourself in a large hall; it is light there, for there are more than three hundred lamps burning.
Who acts: you, bottom, hundred lamps · What happens: reach, find, be, burn · To what, where: bottom, yourself, large hall, light
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, bottom, hundred lamps), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reach | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 reach | nsubj |
| 3 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 light | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bottom | det |
| 5 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reach | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bottom | nmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 find | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bottom | acl:relcl |
| 12 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 find | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hall | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hall | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hall | amod |
| 16 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 reach | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 light | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 light | cop |
| 20 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 light | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 are | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 are | mark |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 are | expl |
| 25 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 light | parataxis |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 29 hundred | advmod |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 more | fixed |
| 28 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 hundred | compound |
| 29 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 lamps | nummod |
| 30 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 are | nsubj |
| 31 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 lamps | acl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 light | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | you | the bottom of the tree | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | future | you | yourself | a large hall | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Topic | |||
| 3 | is a | present | bottom | light | there | tree rules | |||
| 4 | does | present | hundred lamps | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | burn | gerund | hundred lamps not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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