The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 47

The young man turned to leave the hut, but the old woman stopped him, and, giving him a letter, begged him to carry it to her next eldest sister, saying: “If you should get tired on the way, take out the letter and rustle the paper.”

Who acts: young man, old woman, you · What happens: turn, leave, stop, give, beg, carry · To what, where: hut, man, letter, next eldest sister, way, paper · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, old woman, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 leave	mark
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 turned	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hut	det
8	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stopped	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 stopped	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stopped	nsubj
14	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stopped	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 begged	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 begged	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 giving	punct
19	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 begged	ccomp
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 giving	iobj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 letter	det
22	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 giving	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 giving	punct
24	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 begged	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 carry	mark
27	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 begged	xcomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 carry	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	33 sister	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 sister	nmod:poss
31	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sister	amod
32	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 sister	amod
33	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 carry	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 saying	punct
35	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 carry	advcl
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 get	punct
37	“	"	PUNCT	_	41 get	punct
38	If	if	SCONJ	_	41 get	mark
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 get	nsubj
40	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 get	aux
41	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 saying	ccomp
42	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 get	xcomp
43	on	on	ADP	_	45 way	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 way	det
45	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 get	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 take	punct
47	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	41 get	parataxis
48	out	out	ADP	_	47 take	compound:prt
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 letter	det
50	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 take	obj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 rustle	cc
52	rustle	rustle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 take	conj
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 paper	det
54	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 rustle	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 get	punct
56	”	"	PUNCT	_	41 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the young man					tree rules
2	leave	to-infinitive	the young man not said here	the hut				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Theme
3	stop	past	the old woman	man				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector he=Eventuality
4	give	gerund		a letter	man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient letter=Theme
5	beg speech: request	past	the young man not said here		man			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	carry not said to happen	to-infinitive	the young man not said here	hut	woman's next eldest sister			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to sister=Destination
7	say speech: assert	gerund	the young man not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	should	you			the way	tired property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on way=Source
9	take out in a quote	infinitive		the letter				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
10	rustle in a quote	present		the paper				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location paper=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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