The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 59

“Be quick and clean them!” he said, “and I will go to those people’s tents on the other side of the water.”

Who acts: Hare · What happens: be, clean, say, go · To what, where: waters, other side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare), 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	_	3 quick	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 quick	cop
3	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 clean	cc
5	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 quick	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 clean	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 quick	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 quick	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 go	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 tents	case
18	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 people	det
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 tents	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 people	case
21	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 go	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 side	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 side	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 side	amod
25	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 water	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 water	det
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 side	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	infinitive				quick property	tree rules
2	clean in a quote	infinitive		waters = water			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	say speech: express	past	Hare				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go in a quote	future	Hare		the other side of the water	to that people's tents	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tent=Initial_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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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