The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 57

“Now you must fix on a spot for your cow-stalls,” said the girl, when they had breakfasted off wild cherries; “and take care it is the proper size, neither too large nor too small.”

Who acts: you, girl, words, care · What happens: fix, say, breakfast, take, be · To what, where: spot, care, proper size · 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 (you, girl, words, care), 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	_	5 fix	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 fix	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 fix	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fix	aux
5	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 spot	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 spot	det
8	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fix	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	13 stalls	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 stalls	nmod:poss
11	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stalls	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 cow	punct
13	stalls	stall	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spot	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fix	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 fix	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 girl	det
18	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 breakfasted	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 breakfasted	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 breakfasted	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 breakfasted	aux
23	breakfasted	breakfast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 girl	acl
24	off	off	ADP	_	26 cherries	case
25	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 cherries	amod
26	cherries	cherry	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 breakfasted	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 take	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 take	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 take	cc
30	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
31	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 take	obj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 size	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 size	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 size	det
35	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 size	amod
36	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 take	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 large	punct
38	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	40 large	cc:preconj
39	too	too	ADV	_	40 large	advmod
40	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 take	advcl
41	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	43 small	cc
42	too	too	ADV	_	43 small	advmod
43	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 large	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 take	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix in a quote	must	you		a spot for your cow stalls	now		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the girl					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	breakfast	past · perfect	words = word				off wild cherries	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take in a quote	infinitive		care				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
5	is a in a quote	present	care	the proper size				tree rules

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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