The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 46

“The giant’s castle is not far now,” he said, “but when we reach it you two must remain outside while I go and fetch the princess.

Who acts: castle, we, you · What happens: be, say, reach, remain, go, fetch · To what, where: way, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (castle, we, 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	_	13 said	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 castle	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 giant	case
5	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 now	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 now	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 far	advmod
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 now	advmod
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 said	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 now	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 now	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 remain	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 remain	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 remain	cc
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 reach	mark
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 reach	nsubj
19	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 remain	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 reach	obj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 remain	nsubj
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 you	appos
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 remain	aux
24	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
25	outside	outside	ADV	_	24 remain	advmod
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 go	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
28	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 remain	advcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fetch	cc
30	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 go	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 princess	det
32	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fetch	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the giant's castle		far, now property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	castle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	reach in a quote	present	we	way		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	remain in a quote	must	you		outside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go in a quote	present	castle			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fetch in a quote	present	castle not said here	the princess		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme

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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