More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 138

Before you go to bed to-night I will send to my eldest brother, and will tell him what you want, and he won't have much trouble in sending you on to the place where you must get the apples.

Who acts: you, I, man · What happens: go, send, tell, want, not have, send on · To what, where: bed, night, eldest brother, man, much trouble, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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, I, man), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 go	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 bed	case
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 night	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 to	punct
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 send	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 send	aux
11	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 night	acl:relcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 brother	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 brother	nmod:poss
14	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 brother	amod
15	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 send	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tell	cc
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	aux
19	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 want	obj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 want	nsubj
23	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 have	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
27	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 have	aux
28	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 have	advmod
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 tell	parataxis
30	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 trouble	amod
31	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	obj
32	in	in	SCONJ	_	33 sending	mark
33	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 have	advcl
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 sending	iobj
35	on	on	ADP	_	33 sending	compound:prt
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 place	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 place	det
38	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sending	obl
39	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	42 get	advmod
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 get	nsubj
41	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 get	aux
42	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 place	acl:relcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 apples	det
44	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 get	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	present	you			bed	night	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	send	future	I	night not said here	my eldest brother			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent night=Theme to brother=Destination
3	tell speech: assert	future			man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	want	present	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
5	not have	future	man	much trouble				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient
6	send on	gerund	man not said here		you	the place		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to place=Destination
7	get	must	you	the apples				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus

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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