The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 20

“I must go now,” said the bear, pulling the sleepy prince on to his feet; “but first you shall cut off the tip of my ear, and when you are in any danger just wish yourself a bear and you will become one.

Who acts: bear, you · What happens: go, say, pull, cut off, be, wish · To what, where: sleepy prince, feet, tip, danger, bear, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 go	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bear	det
10	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pulling	punct
12	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prince	det
14	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 prince	amod
15	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pulling	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 feet	case
17	to	to	ADP	_	16 on	fixed
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 feet	nmod:poss
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pulling	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 cut	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 cut	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 cut	cc
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 cut	advmod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 cut	nsubj
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 cut	aux
26	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	parataxis
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 cut	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tip	det
29	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cut	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 ear	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 ear	nmod:poss
32	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tip	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 danger	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 danger	cc
35	when	when	SCONJ	_	40 danger	mark
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 danger	nsubj
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 danger	cop
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 danger	case
39	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	40 danger	det
40	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
41	just	just	ADV	_	42 wish	advmod
42	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	40 danger	parataxis
43	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	42 wish	iobj
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 bear	det
45	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 wish	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 become	cc
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 become	nsubj
48	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 become	aux
49	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 wish	conj
50	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 become	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	must	the bear = bear				now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the bear						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pull	gerund	the bear not said here	the sleepy prince		bear's feet			tree rules
4	cut off in a quote	shall	you	the tip of my ear				first property	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector tip=Eventuality
5	is in a quote	present	you			any danger			tree rules
6	wish in a quote	infinitive		a bear	yourself				tree rules
7	become in a quote	future	you	one					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient one=Result

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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