The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 120

You can explain it, you can open it and show people where the waltzes lie, how they go, and how one follows the other!’

Who acts: You, waltzes, one · What happens: explain, open, show, lie, go, follow · To what, where: see, people, other

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, waltzes, one), 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 explain	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 explain	aux
3	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 explain	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 open	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 open	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 open	aux
8	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 explain	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 open	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 show	cc
11	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 open	conj
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 show	iobj
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 lie	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 waltzes	det
15	waltzes	waltz	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lie	nsubj
16	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 show	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 go	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 go	nsubj
20	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 lie	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 follows	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 follows	cc
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 follows	advmod
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 follows	nsubj
25	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 explain	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 other	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 follows	obj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 explain	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 explain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	can	You	see		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	open	can	you	see		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	show	infinitive	you not said here		people	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
4	lie	present	the waltzes			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go	present	waltzes = waltz			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	follow	present	one	the other		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=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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