The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 6
If you ever got beyond it, you came to a stately forest with great trees and deep lakes in it.
Who acts: you · What happens: get, come · To what, where: forest
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), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 got | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 got | advmod |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | advcl |
| 5 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 12 | stately | stately | ADV | _ | 13 forest | advmod |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 trees | case |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 trees | amod |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 forest | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lakes | cc |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lakes | amod |
| 19 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 trees | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lakes | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get a condition, not said to happen | past | you | ever | beyond garden | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | come | past | you | a forest with great trees and deep lakes in garden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location |
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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