The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 78

“Then climb up that cocoa-nut tree, with your legs only, not using your hands,” said the woman.

Who acts: woman · What happens: climb up, not use, say · To what, where: nut tree, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 climb	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 climb	advmod
3	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 climb	compound:prt
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 tree	det
6	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nut	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 cocoa	punct
8	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	compound
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climb	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 legs	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 legs	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 legs	nmod:poss
13	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 climb	obl
14	only	only	ADV	_	3 climb	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 using	punct
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 using	advmod
17	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 climb	advcl
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hands	nmod:poss
19	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 using	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 climb	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 climb	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 woman	det
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	climb up in a quote	infinitive		that nut tree	then	with your legs	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
2	not use in a quote	gerund		your hands			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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