The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 20

Go to it, and cut away the roots with your knife, and you will come to countless bags of gold.

Who acts: you · What happens: go, cut away, come · To what, where: gold, roots, countless bags

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), 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	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Go	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cut	cc
6	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Go	parataxis
7	away	away	ADP	_	6 cut	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roots	det
9	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cut	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 knife	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 knife	nmod:poss
12	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 roots	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 come	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 come	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cut	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 bags	case
19	countless	countless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bags	amod
20	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 come	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 gold	case
22	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bags	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here		gold		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location
2	cut away	participle		the roots		with your knife	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient with knife=Instrument
3	come	future	you		countless bags of gold		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bag=Initial_Location

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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