The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 127

If anyone asks you whence you came, answer that you have come from behind you; and if anyone asks you whither you are going, say that you are going before you.'

Who acts: anyone, you · What happens: ask, come, answer, go, say · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anyone, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 asks	mark
2	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 say	advcl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 asks	obj
5	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	7 came	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asks	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 answer	punct
9	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 come	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 answer	ccomp
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 you	case
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 come	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 say	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 say	cc
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 asks	mark
20	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 asks	nsubj
21	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 say	advcl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 asks	obj
23	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	26 going	advmod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 going	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 going	aux
26	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 asks	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asks	punct
28	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 going	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 going	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 going	aux
32	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 say	ccomp
33	before	before	ADP	_	34 you	case
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 going	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 say	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	anyone	you			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come	past	you			whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here				tree rules
4	come	present · perfect	you			from you	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from you=Initial_Location
5	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	anyone	you			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
6	go	present · progressive	you			whither property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	go	present · progressive	you		before you		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before you=Location

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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