The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 64

But, before they started on the journey, the wife whispered to her husband: “Take care to jump over the threshold as quick as you can, or it will be the worse for you.”

Who acts: men, wife, care · What happens: start, whisper, take, jump, be · To what, where: journey, husband, care, threshold · 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 (men, wife, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 whispered	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 But	punct
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 started	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 started	nsubj
5	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 whispered	advcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 journey	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 journey	det
8	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 started	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 started	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wife	det
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whispered	nsubj
12	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 husband	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 husband	nmod:poss
15	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whispered	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 Take	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 Take	punct
18	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 whispered	ccomp
19	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Take	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 jump	mark
21	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 Take	csubj
22	over	over	ADP	_	24 threshold	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 threshold	det
24	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 jump	obl
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 quick	advmod
26	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 jump	advcl
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 can	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 can	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 quick	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 worse	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 worse	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 worse	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 worse	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 worse	cop
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 worse	det
36	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 Take	parataxis
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 you	case
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 worse	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 Take	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	start	past	men = man			the journey		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	whisper speech: assert	past	the wife		wife's husband			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient clause=Topic
3	take in a quote	infinitive		care				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
4	jump in a quote	to-infinitive				the threshold		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over threshold=Trajectory
5	is in a quote	future	care				for wife's husband = husband; bad property	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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