The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 39

“Go home,” he said, “and see your mother and sisters; but take care if you hear the cock crow to turn towards it; if on the contrary the ass brays, you must look the other way.”

Who acts: father, you, ass · What happens: go, say, see, take, hear, turn · To what, where: mother, care, cock crow, contrary, other way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, you, ass), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 see	cc
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sisters	cc
15	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 mother	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 take	cc
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
19	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 hear	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 hear	nsubj
22	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 take	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 crow	det
24	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crow	compound
25	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hear	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 turn	mark
27	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 hear	advcl
28	towards	towards	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 turn	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 look	punct
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 brays	mark
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 contrary	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 contrary	det
34	contrary	contrary	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 brays	obl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ass	det
36	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 brays	nsubj
37	brays	bray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 look	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 brays	punct
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 look	nsubj
40	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 look	aux
41	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 take	parataxis
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 way	det
43	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 way	amod
44	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 look	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 look	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	infinitive				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see in a quote	infinitive		your mother and sisters			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus
4	take in a quote	infinitive		care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
5	hear a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	the cock crow			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crow=Stimulus
6	turn in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			towards crow	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards it=Trajectory
7	bray a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the ass		the contrary		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	look in a quote	must	you	the other way			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Attribute

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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