The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 107

Before you get there you must capture some game.

Who acts: you · What happens: get, capture · To what, where: game

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 get	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 capture	advcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 get	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 capture	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 capture	aux
7	capture	capture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 game	det
9	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 capture	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 capture	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	you			there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	capture	must	you	some game					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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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