The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 106
You must walk past them three times, and the third time you must show me which is my youngest daughter Hyacinthia.
Who acts: You · What happens: walk, show, be · To what, where: me, youngest daughter
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. 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 walk | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 walk | aux |
| 3 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | past | past | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walk | obl |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 times | nummod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walk | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 show | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 show | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 show | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 show | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 show | aux |
| 15 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 walk | parataxis |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 show | iobj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 daughter | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 daughter | cop |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 daughter | amod |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 show | parataxis |
| 22 | Hyacinthia | Hyacinthia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 daughter | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | must | You | time | past rows = row | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past they=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | show | must | you | me | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is a | present | my youngest daughter | tree rules |
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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