The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 82

You must not throw them down, but carry them in your hands; and you must descend as you went up, using your legs only.”

Who acts: You · What happens: not throw down, carry, descend, go up, use · To what, where: nuts, hands, legs

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 (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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 throw	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 throw	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 throw	advmod
4	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 throw	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 throw	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 carry	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 carry	cc
9	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 throw	parataxis
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 carry	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hands	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 carry	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 descend	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 descend	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 descend	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 descend	aux
18	descend	descend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 throw	parataxis
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 went	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 descend	advcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 went	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 using	punct
24	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 went	advcl
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 legs	nmod:poss
26	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 using	obj
27	only	only	ADV	_	24 using	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not throw down	must	You	nuts = nut		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	carry	infinitive		nuts = nut	your hands	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in hand=Location
3	descend	must	you			vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go up	past	you			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	use	gerund	you not said here	your legs		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

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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