The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 68
Go and seek him in some distant island, and I will send winds that will swell your sails and bring you to him.
Who acts: you, I, winds · What happens: go, seek, send, swell, bring · To what, where: father, distant island, winds, sails, you
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, winds), 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 seek | cc |
| 3 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seek | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 island | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 island | det |
| 7 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 island | amod |
| 8 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seek | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 send | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 send | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 send | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 send | aux |
| 13 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 14 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 send | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 swell | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 swell | aux |
| 17 | swell | swell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 winds | acl:relcl |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sails | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 swell | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bring | cc |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 swell | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 bring | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bring | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seek | infinitive | you not said here | father | some distant island | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in island=Location | |||
| 3 | send | future | I | winds | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme | ||||
| 4 | swell | future | winds | your sails | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient sail=Extent | ||||
| 5 | bring | infinitive | winds not said here | you | father | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to he=Destination |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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