The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 14

‘This evening at sunset go to yonder pear-tree which you see growing at the cross roads.

Who acts: evening, you, pear tree · What happens: go, see, grow · To what, where: pear tree, cross roads

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening, you, pear tree), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
2	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 sunset	case
5	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 evening	nmod
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 tree	case
8	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	11 tree	advmod
9	pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tree	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 pear	punct
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 see	obj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
14	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tree	acl:relcl
15	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 see	xcomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 roads	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 roads	det
18	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 roads	compound
19	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 growing	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	present	this evening at sunset		pear tree	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location
2	see	present	you	pear tree		tree rules
3	grow	gerund	pear tree not said here		the cross roads	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at road=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 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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