The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 74
‘You can never reach the spring of the Fairy of the Dawn unless you ride the horse which your father, the emperor, rode in his youth.
Who acts: You, father · What happens: not reach, ride · To what, where: horse, youth
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, father), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 reach | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 reach | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 reach | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 reach | advmod |
| 5 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spring | det |
| 7 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reach | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Fairy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fairy | det |
| 10 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 spring | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Dawn | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Dawn | det |
| 13 | Dawn | Dawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fairy | nmod |
| 14 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 16 ride | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 ride | nsubj |
| 16 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reach | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 horse | det |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ride | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 rode | obj |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rode | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 emperor | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 emperor | det |
| 24 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 father | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 father | punct |
| 26 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 horse | acl:relcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 youth | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 youth | nmod:poss |
| 29 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rode | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reach | can | You | spring | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ride a condition, not said to happen | present | you | the horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ride | past | your father | the horse | father's youth | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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