The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 44

“Don’t go,” said the boy earnestly; when once they have tasted your milk they will never let you leave them, and you will have to serve them all the days of your life.”

Who acts: boy, weddings, you · What happens: not go, say, taste, not let, leave, have · To what, where: milk, you, weddings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, weddings, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	9 boy	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 tasted	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 tasted	advmod
13	once	once	SCONJ	_	16 tasted	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tasted	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 tasted	aux
16	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 let	advcl
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 milk	nmod:poss
18	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tasted	obj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 let	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 let	aux
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 let	advmod
22	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 leave	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 have	cc
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 have	aux
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 serve	mark
32	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 have	xcomp
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 serve	obj
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 days	det:predet
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 days	det
36	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 serve	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 life	case
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 life	nmod:poss
39	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 days	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not go in a quote	infinitive · do-support				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	taste	present · perfect	weddings = wedding	your milk		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme milk=Attribute
4	not let	future	weddings = wedding	you		tree rules
5	leave	infinitive	you not said here	weddings = wedding		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	have	future	you			tree rules
7	serve	to-infinitive	you not said here	weddings = wedding	day	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Attribute

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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