The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 6
The army cannot come into it, and to-morrow it is to march on.’
Who acts: army · What happens: not come, be · To what, where: three
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (army), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 army | det |
| 2 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 come | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 march | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 march | cc |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 morrow | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 to | punct |
| 12 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 march | obl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 march | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 march | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 march | mark |
| 16 | march | march | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 come | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 march | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | can | the army | three | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | army | to morrow; march property | tree rules |
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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