The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 95

“Yes, they are old enough,” answered they; “but whoever puts them on and wishes himself at a particular place, gets there without going.”

Who acts: shoes, whoever · What happens: be, answer, put on, wish, get, go · To what, where: shoes, man, particular place · 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 (shoes, whoever), 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	_	6 old	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 old	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 old	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 gets	advcl
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	conj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 puts	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 puts	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 puts	cc
15	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 puts	nsubj
16	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 gets	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 puts	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	16 puts	compound:prt
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wishes	cc
20	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 puts	conj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 wishes	obj
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 place	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 place	det
24	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 place	amod
25	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wishes	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gets	punct
27	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 gets	advmod
29	without	without	SCONJ	_	30 going	mark
30	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 gets	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 going	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	shoes = shoe				enough, old property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	shoes = shoe not said here		shoes = shoe			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
3	put on in a quote	present	whoever	shoes = shoe				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
4	wish in a quote	present	whoever not said here	man		a particular place		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme
5	get in a quote	present				there		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	go in a quote	gerund						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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