The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 47

Directly I bring her out you must both catch hold of her tight, and get away as fast as you can; while I return to the castle and talk to the giants—for there are many of them—so that they may not notice the escape of the princess.”

Who acts: I, you, grains, princess · What happens: bring out, catch, get away, return, talk, be · To what, where: princess, hold, many, escape

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 (I, you, grains, princess), 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	Directly	directly	ADV	_	3 bring	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 bring	nsubj
3	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 catch	advcl
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bring	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 bring	compound:prt
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 catch	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 catch	aux
8	both	both	ADV	_	9 catch	advmod
9	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 catch	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 tight	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tight	nmod:poss
13	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hold	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 get	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 get	cc
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 catch	conj
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 get	advmod
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 fast	advmod
19	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 get	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 can	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 can	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 fast	advcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 return	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 return	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 return	nsubj
26	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 catch	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 castle	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 castle	det
29	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 return	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 talk	cc
31	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 return	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 giants	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 giants	det
34	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 talk	obl
35	—	-	PUNCT	_	38 are	punct
36	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 are	mark
37	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	38 are	expl
38	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 catch	conj
39	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 are	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 many	nmod
42	—	-	PUNCT	_	48 notice	punct
43	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	48 notice	mark
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 so	fixed
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 notice	nsubj
46	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 notice	aux
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 notice	advmod
48	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 catch	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 escape	det
50	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 notice	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 princess	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 princess	det
53	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 escape	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 notice	punct
55	”	"	PUNCT	_	48 notice	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring out	present	I	princess		directly property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	catch	must	you	hold of princess's tight		both property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
3	get away	infinitive	you not said here			away, fast property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	return	present	I			to the castle result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result
5	talk	infinitive	I not said here			to the giants	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to giant=Co-Agent
6	be	present	you not said here	many of grains	there		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot many=Theme
7	not notice	may	grains = grain	the escape of the princess			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer escape=Stimulus
8	escape		the princess				nom escape «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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