The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 24

“Oh, I forgot!” he exclaimed, turning round, as he was about to drive them in the opposite direction, “you must be sure not to open the bag until you have gone at least five miles, right on the other side of those hills out there.

Who acts: fox, you · What happens: forget, exclaim, turn round, be, drive, not open · To what, where: doubts, opposite direction, bag, five miles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, 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	_	5 forgot	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 forgot	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 forgot	nsubj
5	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 forgot	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 forgot	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 exclaimed	nsubj
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 forgot	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 turning	punct
11	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 exclaimed	advcl
12	round	round	ADV	_	11 turning	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 about	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 about	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 about	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 about	cop
17	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 exclaimed	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 drive	mark
19	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 about	xcomp
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drive	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 direction	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 direction	det
23	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 direction	amod
24	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drive	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sure	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 sure	punct
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 sure	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 sure	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 sure	cop
30	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 about	parataxis
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 open	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 open	mark
33	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 sure	ccomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bag	det
35	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 open	obj
36	until	until	SCONJ	_	39 gone	mark
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 gone	nsubj
38	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 gone	aux
39	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 open	advcl
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 least	case
41	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	42 five	nmod
42	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 miles	nummod
43	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 gone	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 side	punct
45	right	right	ADV	_	49 side	advmod
46	on	on	ADP	_	49 side	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 side	det
48	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 side	amod
49	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 open	conj
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 hills	case
51	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	52 hills	det
52	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 side	nmod
53	out	out	ADV	_	54 there	advmod
54	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 side	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	forget in a quote	past	fox				tree rules
2	exclaim speech: express	past	fox				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	turn round	gerund	fox not said here			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	fox			about property	tree rules
5	drive	to-infinitive	fox not said here	doubts = doubt	the opposite direction		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in direction=Destination
6	is in a quote	must	you			sure property	tree rules
7	not open in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	the bag			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme
8	go in a quote	present · perfect	you	five miles			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=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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