The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 16
When you get there, turn first to the right and then to the left, and you will find yourself in a sun meadow, where many horses are feeding.
Who acts: you, many horses · What happens: get, turn, find, feed · To what, where: right, yourself, sun meadow
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, many horses), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 get | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 turn | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 get | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 6 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 turn | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 right | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 right | det |
| 10 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turn | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 left | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 left | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 left | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 left | det |
| 15 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 right | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 find | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 turn | conj |
| 21 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 find | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 meadow | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 meadow | det |
| 24 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 meadow | compound |
| 25 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 feeding | punct |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 feeding | advmod |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 horses | amod |
| 29 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 feeding | nsubj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 feeding | aux |
| 31 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 meadow | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | you | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | turn | imperative | you not said here | the right and the left | first property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to right=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | find | future | you | yourself | a sun meadow | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Topic | |||
| 4 | feed | present · progressive | many horses | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
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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