The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 141
You must return to the world of men, where joy awaits you.’
Who acts: You, joy · What happens: return, await · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, joy), 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 return | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 return | aux |
| 3 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 world | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 return | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 men | case |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 world | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 awaits | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 awaits | advmod |
| 11 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 awaits | nsubj |
| 12 | awaits | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 men | acl:relcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 awaits | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | must | You | to the world of men result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to world=Result | ||||
| 2 | await | present | joy | you | 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 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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