The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 100

But the boy answered, ‘Wherever you go, I will go with you.

Who acts: boy, you, I · What happens: answer, go · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, you, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
7	Wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	9 go	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 go	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	ccomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 go	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the boy		tree rules
2	go	present	you	wherever property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	future	I	with you	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary

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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