The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 20

When you have captured a whole lot of people in this way, lead your train straight on with you; you will come to a big town where a Princess lives who has never been known to laugh.

Who acts: you, Princess · What happens: capture, lead, come, live, not know, laugh · To what, where: whole lot, way, train, big town

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 (you, Princess), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 captured	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 captured	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 captured	aux
4	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 lead	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lot	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lot	amod
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 captured	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lot	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 captured	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lead	punct
14	lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 train	nmod:poss
16	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lead	obj
17	straight	straight	ADV	_	18 on	advmod
18	on	on	ADV	_	14 lead	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 lead	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 lead	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 town	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 town	det
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 town	amod
28	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	obl
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 lives	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 Princess	det
31	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 lives	nsubj
32	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 town	acl:relcl
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 known	nsubj:pass
34	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 known	aux
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 known	advmod
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 known	aux:pass
37	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 lives	ccomp
38	to	to	PART	_	39 laugh	mark
39	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 known	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 lead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	capture	present · perfect	you	a whole lot of people	this way		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme
2	lead	imperative	you not said here	your train		with you	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Theme
3	come	future	you		a big town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
4	live	present	a Princess				tree rules
5	not know	present · perfect · passive					tree rules
6	laugh	to-infinitive					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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