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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 112

When you go on from the Place of Gifts, be sure you do not take the right-hand road; take the left, for the other leads by the negro castle, which is known as the Place of Clashing Swords, and where there are forty negro captains each over three thousand or four thousand more.

Who acts: you, Place, forty negro captains · What happens: go on, be, not take, take, know, clash · To what, where: Place, hand road, left, negro castle, Swords

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, Place, forty negro captains), 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

advmodnsubjadvmodcasedetoblcasenmodpunctcopparataxisnsubjauxadvmodparataxisdetamodpunctcompoundobjpunctconjdetobjpunctcasedetamodoblcasedetcompoundoblpunctnsubj:passaux:passacl:relclcasedetoblmarkaclobjpunctccadvmodexplparataxisnummodamodnsubjdetadvmodcompoundapposccconjnummodconjpunctrootWhenADVyouPRONgoVERBonADVfromADPtheDETPlaceNOUNofADPGiftsNOUN,PUNCTbeAUXsureADJyouPRONdoAUXnotPARTtakeVERBtheDETrightADJ-PUNCThandNOUNroadNOUN;PUNCTtakeVERBtheDETleftNOUN,PUNCTforADPtheDETotherADJleadsNOUNbyADPtheDETnegroNOUNcastleNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONisAUXknownVERBasADPtheDETPlaceNOUNofSCONJClashingVERBSwordsPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJwhereADVtherePRONareVERBfortyNUMnegroADJcaptainsNOUNeachDEToverADVthreeNUMthousandNUMorCCONJfourNUMthousandNUMmoreADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 goadvmod
2youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs3 gonsubj
3gogoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4ononADV_3 goadvmod
5fromfromADP_7 Placecase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 Placedet
7PlaceplaceNOUNNumber=Sing3 goobl
8ofofADP_9 Giftscase
9GiftsgiftNOUNNumber=Plur7 Placenmod
10,,PUNCT_12 surepunct
11bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf12 surecop
12suresureADJDegree=Pos3 goparataxis
13youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs16 takensubj
14dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin16 takeaux
15notnotPARTPolarity=Neg16 takeadvmod
16taketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf12 sureparataxis
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 roaddet
18rightrightADJDegree=Pos20 handamod
19--PUNCT_18 rightpunct
20handhandNOUNNumber=Sing21 roadcompound
21roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing16 takeobj
22;;PUNCT_23 takepunct
23taketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf16 takeconj
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 leftdet
25leftleftNOUNNumber=Sing23 takeobj
26,,PUNCT_30 leadspunct
27forforADP_30 leadscase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 leadsdet
29otherotherADJDegree=Pos30 leadsamod
30leadsleadNOUNNumber=Plur23 takeobl
31bybyADP_34 castlecase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 castledet
33negronegroNOUNNumber=Sing34 castlecompound
34castlecastleNOUNNumber=Sing23 takeobl
35,,PUNCT_38 knownpunct
36whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel38 knownnsubj:pass
37isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin38 knownaux:pass
38knownknowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass34 castleacl:relcl
39asasADP_41 Placecase
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 Placedet
41PlaceplaceNOUNNumber=Sing38 knownobl
42ofofSCONJ_43 Clashingmark
43ClashingclashVERBVerbForm=Ger41 Placeacl
44SwordsSwordPROPNNumber=Plur43 Clashingobj
45,,PUNCT_49 arepunct
46andandCCONJ_49 arecc
47wherewhereADVPronType=Rel49 areadvmod
48theretherePRONPronType=Dem49 areexpl
49arebeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 goparataxis
50fortyfortyNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card52 captainsnummod
51negronegroADJDegree=Pos52 captainsamod
52captainscaptainNOUNNumber=Plur49 arensubj
53eacheachDETPronType=Tot56 thousanddet
54overoverADV_56 thousandadvmod
55threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card56 thousandcompound
56thousandthousandNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card52 captainsappos
57ororCCONJ_58 fourcc
58fourfourNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card56 thousandconj
59thousandthousandNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card60 morenummod
60moremoreADJDegree=Cmp56 thousandconj
61..PUNCT_3 gopunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1go onpresentyouthe Place of Giftsvn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2isinfinitivesure propertytree rules
3not takepresent · do-supportyouthe hand roadvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme
4takeinfinitiveyou not said herethe leftfor the other leads; by the negro castlevn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent left=Theme for lead=Beneficiary
5knowpresent · passivethe negro castleas the Placevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as place=Attribute
6clashgerundthe Place not said hereSwordsvn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sword=Theme
7doespresentforty negro captainstherevn exist-47.1 «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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