The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 51

“Good mother,” he said, “you must go to-night to the bridge, and when you are there cry ‘Ali!

Who acts: sultan, you · What happens: say, go, be · To what, where: bridge, cry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan, 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	_	3 mother	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mother	amod
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 night	case
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 to	punct
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 bridge	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bridge	det
18	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cry	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cry	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 cry	advmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 cry	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 cry	cop
24	there	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes	25 cry	nmod:poss
25	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 Ali	punct
27	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 cry	appos
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	sultan				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	must	you		the bridge	night	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bridge=Initial_Location
3	is a in a quote	present	you	there's cry			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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