The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 78

“Ah, yes, you are the person I want,” said the fox; “but come near, so that I may get on your back, without wetting my feet.”

Who acts: you, fox · What happens: be, want, say, come, get, wet · To what, where: person, back, feet · 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 (you, fox), 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	_	9 person	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	9 person	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 person	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 yes	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 person	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 person	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 want	nsubj
11	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 person	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 want	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 person	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fox	det
16	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 come	cc
20	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	parataxis
21	near	near	ADV	_	20 come	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 get	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 get	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 get	nsubj
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 get	aux
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 come	conj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 back	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 back	nmod:poss
30	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 get	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wetting	punct
32	without	without	SCONJ	_	33 wetting	mark
33	wetting	wet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 get	advcl
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 feet	nmod:poss
35	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 wetting	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	you	the person			tree rules
2	want in a quote	present	the fox = fox	the person not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot person=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the fox				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come in a quote	present				near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get in a quote	may	the fox = fox		your back		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on back=Source
6	wet in a quote	gerund	the fox = fox not said here	my feet			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent foot=Patient

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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