More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 128

You'd better come and have some breakfast before you start on your way to my other brother's house.

Who acts: You · What happens: come, have, start · To what, where: breakfast, way

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. 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	4 come	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 have	cc
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	conj
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 breakfast	det
8	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 start	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 start	nsubj
11	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 have	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 way	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 way	nmod:poss
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 start	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	20 house	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 brother	nmod:poss
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 brother	amod
18	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 house	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 brother	case
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 way	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	would	You			well property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	You not said here	some breakfast			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient
3	start	present	you		your way to my other brother's house		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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