The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 66

When they had gone some distance on the road home, the girl turned to her husband and said: “Till you step inside the house, be sure you do not look back, whatever you may hear or see.”

Who acts: men, girl, you · What happens: go, turn, say, step, be, not look back · To what, where: distance, road, house, whatever · 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, girl, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gone	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 distance	det
6	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 road	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 distance	nmod
10	home	home	ADV	_	4 gone	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turned	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turned	nsubj
14	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 husband	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 husband	nmod:poss
17	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turned	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 turned	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 sure	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 sure	punct
22	Till	till	SCONJ	_	24 step	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 step	nsubj
24	step	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 sure	advcl
25	inside	inside	ADP	_	27 house	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 house	det
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 step	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 step	punct
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 sure	cop
30	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 said	ccomp
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 look	nsubj
32	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 look	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 look	advmod
34	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 sure	ccomp
35	back	back	ADV	_	34 look	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 hear	punct
37	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 hear	obj
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 hear	nsubj
39	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 hear	aux
40	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 look	conj
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 see	cc
42	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 look	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 sure	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	men = man	some distance	the road	home property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme
2	turn	past	the girl			to girl's husband result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to husband=Result
3	say speech: assert	past	the girl not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	step in a quote	present	you		the house		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside house=Trajectory
5	is in a quote	infinitive				sure property	tree rules
6	not look back in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	hear in a quote	may	you	whatever			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whatever=Stimulus
8	see in a quote	infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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