The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 53

“You have guessed right,” answered the old woman; “and I can give you no better counsel than to go home at once, before the same fate overtakes you.”

Who acts: You, old woman, heart, same fate · What happens: guess, answer, give, go, overtake · To what, where: better counsel, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, old woman, heart, same fate), 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	_	4 guessed	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 guessed	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 guessed	aux
4	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	4 guessed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 guessed	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 guessed	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 give	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 give	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 guessed	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	no	no	ADV	_	20 better	advmod
20	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 counsel	amod
21	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obj
22	than	than	SCONJ	_	24 go	mark
23	to	to	PART	_	24 go	mark
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 give	advcl
25	home	home	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 once	case
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 go	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 overtakes	punct
29	before	before	SCONJ	_	33 overtakes	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fate	det
31	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fate	amod
32	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 overtakes	nsubj
33	overtakes	overtake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 go	parataxis
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 overtakes	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 guessed	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 guessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	guess in a quote	present · perfect	You			right property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: assert	past	the old woman				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give in a quote	can	heart	better counsel	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient counsel=Theme
4	go in a quote	to-infinitive	heart not said here			home property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
5	overtake in a quote	present	the same fate	you			tree rules

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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