The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 40

“You shall never, never, have my hen till you bring me back my sister who was carried off by a giant to his castle, which is a long way off.”

Who acts: You, giant, castle · What happens: not have, bring back, carry off, be · To what, where: hen, sister, castle, long way

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, giant, castle), 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	_	8 have	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 have	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 never	punct
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 have	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 never	punct
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hen	nmod:poss
10	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
11	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 bring	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 bring	nsubj
13	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 have	advcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 bring	obj
15	back	back	ADP	_	13 bring	compound:prt
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sister	nmod:poss
17	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bring	obj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 carried	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 carried	aux:pass
20	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 sister	acl:relcl
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 carried	compound:prt
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 giant	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 giant	det
24	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 carried	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 castle	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 castle	nmod:poss
27	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 carried	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 way	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 way	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 way	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 way	det
32	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 way	amod
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 castle	appos
34	off	off	ADV	_	33 way	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not have in a quote	shall	You	my hen				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Patient
2	bring back in a quote	infinitive	you	my sister	Sister			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination sister=Theme
3	carry off in a quote	past · passive	a giant	my sister		giant's castle		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to castle=Destination
4	is a in a quote	present	giant's castle	a long way			off 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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