More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 83

Now before we go from here, I must tell you that I am in disguise; and I shall take you where we are stopping."

Who acts: we, I · What happens: go, tell, be, take, stop · To what, where: you, disguise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 tell	advmod
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 go	mark
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	advcl
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 here	case
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 go	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 disguise	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 disguise	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 disguise	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 disguise	case
16	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	ccomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 take	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 take	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tell	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 take	obj
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 stopping	advmod
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 stopping	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 stopping	aux
26	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 take	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	present	we				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from here=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	must	I	you		now	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	is	present	I		disguise		tree rules
4	take	shall	I	you			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
5	stop	present · progressive	we				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «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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