The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 69
You need only hold the end of the thread, and the clew will run on before and show you the way.
Who acts: You, clew · What happens: hold, run, show · To what, where: end, way, you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, clew), 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 | 4 hold | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hold | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 hold | advmod |
| 4 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hold | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 thread | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thread | det |
| 9 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 end | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 run | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 run | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 clew | det |
| 13 | clew | clew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 run | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 run | aux |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hold | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 before | case |
| 17 | before | before | ADV | _ | 15 run | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 show | cc |
| 19 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 run | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 show | iobj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 show | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | You | the end of the thread | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | future | the clew | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on before=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | show | present | the clew not said here | the way | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic |
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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