More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 109

Go all of ye, just afore the night gathers, put a stone in your mouth, and take a hazel-twig in your hands, and say never a word till you're safe home again.

Who acts: you, night · What happens: go, gather, put, take, say, be · To what, where: all, stone, mouth, hazel twig, hands, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, night), 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	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Go	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 ye	case
4	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 all	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gathers	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	10 gathers	advmod
7	afore	afore	SCONJ	_	10 gathers	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gathers	nsubj
10	gathers	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
12	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stone	det
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 mouth	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mouth	nmod:poss
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 take	cc
20	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 twig	det
22	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 twig	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 hazel	punct
24	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 take	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 hands	case
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hands	nmod:poss
27	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 take	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 say	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 say	cc
30	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 word	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 word	det
33	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 say	obj
34	till	till	ADP	_	38 home	case
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 home	nsubj
36	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 home	cop
37	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 home	amod
38	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 say	obl
39	again	again	ADV	_	30 say	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here	all			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme
2	gather	present	the night				vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put	infinitive	you not said here	a stone	your mouth		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in mouth=Destination
4	take	infinitive		a hazel twig	your hands		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent twig=Value in hand=Location
5	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	a word		again	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
6	is	present	you			till safe home	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: «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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