The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 64

“Go to the thicket near the fork, where the boys killed your brothers, and directly they or the dogs see you return here as fast as ever you can.

Who acts: you, boys · What happens: go, kill, see, return · To what, where: fork, brothers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, boys), 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	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 thicket	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thicket	det
5	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Go	obl
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 fork	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fork	det
8	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 killed	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 killed	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boys	det
12	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 killed	nsubj
13	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	conj
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 brothers	nmod:poss
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 killed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 see	cc
18	directly	directly	ADV	_	19 they	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 dogs	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dogs	det
22	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 they	conj
23	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 killed	parataxis
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 return	nsubj
25	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 see	ccomp
26	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 return	advmod
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 fast	advmod
28	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 return	advmod
29	as	as	ADP	_	30 ever	case
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 fast	obl
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 can	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 fast	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	imperative	you not said here		the fork	to the thicket	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thicket=Initial_Location
2	kill in a quote	past	the boys	your brothers			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
3	see in a quote	present	boys = boy				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	return in a quote	present	you		here	fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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