The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 51

But before she went to sleep the girl turned to her husband, and said: “If in your dreams you fancy that you hear strange noises, be sure you do not stir, or get up to see what it is.”

Who acts: sun, girl, you, rest, your · What happens: go, sleep, turn, say, fancy, hear · To what, where: dreams, strange noises · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, girl, you, rest), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	nsubj
9	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sleep	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 husband	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 husband	nmod:poss
12	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 sure	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 sure	punct
18	If	if	SCONJ	_	23 fancy	mark
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 dreams	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 dreams	nmod:poss
21	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fancy	obl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 fancy	nsubj
23	fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 sure	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 hear	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 hear	nsubj
26	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 fancy	advcl
27	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 noises	amod
28	noises	noise	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hear	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fancy	punct
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 sure	cop
31	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 stir	nsubj
33	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 stir	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 stir	advmod
35	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 sure	ccomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 get	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 get	cc
38	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 sure	conj
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 get	compound:prt
40	to	to	PART	_	41 see	mark
41	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 get	xcomp
42	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 see	obj
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 what	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 what	cop
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	sun				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep	to-infinitive	sun not said here				tree rules
3	turn	past	the girl			to girl's husband result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to husband=Result
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	fancy a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you		your dreams		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	hear in a quote	present	you	strange noises			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
7	is in a quote	infinitive				sure property	tree rules
8	not stir in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
9	get up in a quote	infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	see in a quote	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
11	is a in a quote	present	rest				tree rules
12	dream in a quote		your				nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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