The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 57

Don’t you know that when you get there they will hold you fast, for neither beast nor bird is as strong or as swift as you?”

Who acts: you, ropes, beast · What happens: not do, know, get, hold, be · To what, where: you · 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 (you, ropes, beast), 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	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	advcl
2	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Do	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 hold	mark
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 get	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 get	nsubj
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hold	advcl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 get	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hold	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hold	aux
12	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 hold	obj
14	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 hold	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 beast	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 beast	case
17	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	18 beast	det
18	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 strong	nsubj
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	20 bird	cc
20	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beast	conj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 strong	cop
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 strong	case
23	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hold	ccomp
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 swift	cc
25	as	as	ADP	_	26 swift	case
26	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 strong	conj
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 hold	obl
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not do	infinitive	you not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	get	present	you		there		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	hold	future	ropes = rope	you		as you; fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	is	present	neither beast nor bird			strong 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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