The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 14
You must walk straight on till you notice a very strong scent, which comes from a garden by the side of the road.
Who acts: You, strong scent · What happens: walk, notice, come · To what, where: strong scent, garden
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, strong scent), 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 walk | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 walk | aux |
| 3 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 5 on | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 walk | advmod |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 notice | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 notice | nsubj |
| 8 | notice | notice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 walk | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 scent | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 strong | advmod |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 scent | amod |
| 12 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 notice | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 comes | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 comes | nsubj |
| 15 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 scent | acl:relcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 garden | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 garden | det |
| 18 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 comes | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 side | det |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 comes | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 road | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 road | det |
| 24 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 side | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | must | You | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | notice | present | you | a strong scent | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer scent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | present | a strong scent | a garden | by the side of the road | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from garden=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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