More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 61

To-morrow night is Hallowe'en, and the fairy court will then ride through England and Scotland, and if you would borrow me from Elfland you must take your stand by Miles Cross between twelve and one o' the night, and with holy water in your hand you must cast a compass all around you."

Who acts: fairy court, you · What happens: be, ride, borrow, take, cast · To what, where: Hallowe'en, England, me, Elfland, stand, compass

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 (fairy court, 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 morrow	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 To	punct
3	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 night	compound
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Hallowe'en	nmod:desc
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Hallowe'en	cop
6	Hallowe'en	Hallowe'en	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ride	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ride	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 court	det
10	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 court	compound
11	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ride	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 ride	aux
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 ride	advmod
14	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Hallowe'en	parataxis
15	through	through	ADP	_	16 England	case
16	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 ride	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Scotland	cc
18	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 England	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 take	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 take	cc
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 borrow	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 borrow	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 borrow	aux
24	borrow	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 take	advcl
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 borrow	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 Elfland	case
27	Elfland	Elfland	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 borrow	obl
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 take	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 take	aux
30	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ride	conj
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 stand	nmod:poss
32	stand	stand	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 take	obj
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 Cross	case
34	Miles	Miles	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Cross	compound
35	Cross	Cross	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 take	obl
36	between	between	ADP	_	37 twelve	case
37	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 take	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 o	cc
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 o	nummod
40	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 twelve	conj
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	40 o	punct
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 night	det
43	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 take	obl:unmarked
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 cast	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 cast	cc
46	with	with	ADP	_	48 water	case
47	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 water	amod
48	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 cast	obl
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 hand	case
50	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 hand	nmod:poss
51	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 water	nmod
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	54 cast	nsubj
53	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 cast	aux
54	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ride	conj
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 compass	det
56	compass	compass	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 cast	obj
57	all	all	ADV	_	59 you	advmod
58	around	around	ADP	_	59 you	case
59	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	54 cast	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Hallowe'en	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Hallowe'en	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Hallowe'en		night		tree rules
2	ride	future	the fairy court		England and Scotland	then		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through england=Trajectory
3	borrow a condition, not said to happen	would	you	me	Elfland			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from elfland=Source
4	take	must	you	your stand		night	by Miles Cross; between twelve and one o	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stand=Theme
5	cast	must	you	a compass			with holy water in your hand; around you	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent compass=Theme around you=Destination

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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