More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 3

You must seat yourself on that stone, and move neither hand nor foot till I come back, else I'll never find you again.

Who acts: I · What happens: move, come back, not find · To what, where: hand, you

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 seat	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 seat	aux
3	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 seat	nmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 stone	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seat	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 move	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 move	cc
10	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 seat	parataxis
11	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	12 hand	det
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 move	obj
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	14 foot	cc
14	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hand	conj
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 come	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 come	nsubj
17	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 move	advcl
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 find	punct
20	else	else	ADV	_	24 find	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 find	nsubj
22	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 find	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 find	advmod
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 move	conj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 find	obj
26	again	again	ADV	_	24 find	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	move	infinitive		neither hand nor foot			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	come back	present	I				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not find	future	I	you	again	else property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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