The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 30
You will have to walk at least seven hundred miles before you get to it.’
Who acts: You · What happens: have, walk, get · To what, where: hundred miles, Blackbird
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 walk | mark |
| 5 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 least | case |
| 7 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 seven | nmod |
| 8 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hundred | compound |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 miles | nummod |
| 10 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 walk | obl |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 walk | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 get | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | walk | to-infinitive | You not said here | hundred miles | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | present | you | Blackbird | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to it=Result |
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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