More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 116
But the Good Folk whispered together, and one of them came up to her and took her by the hand and said, "If you won't go home to your mother, go forward, go forward; mind you take the right road.
Who acts: Good Folk, one, you · What happens: whisper, come up, take, say, not go, go · To what, where: Folk, mind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good Folk, one, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 whispered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Folk | det |
| 3 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Folk | amod |
| 4 | Folk | Folk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 whispered | nsubj |
| 5 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 whispered | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 came | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 one | nmod |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 whispered | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 hand | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hand | det |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 go | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 go | punct |
| 26 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 go | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 go | nsubj |
| 28 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 go | aux |
| 29 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 go | advmod |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 said | ccomp |
| 31 | home | home | ADV | _ | 30 go | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 mother | case |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 mother | nmod:poss |
| 34 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 go | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 go | punct |
| 36 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 go | conj |
| 37 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 36 go | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 go | punct |
| 39 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 go | conj |
| 40 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 39 go | advmod |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 take | punct |
| 42 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 take | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 take | nsubj |
| 44 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 whispered | parataxis |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 road | det |
| 46 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 road | amod |
| 47 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 take | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | the Good Folk | together property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come up | past | one of banks | Folk | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | take | past | one of banks not said here | Folk | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | one of banks not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | to your mother; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | go in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | forward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | forward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | take in a quote | present | you | mind | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme |
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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