The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 30

“I have kept my most precious treasure till the last,” said the old woman; “but let me go first, for the stairs are steep, and you might easily break your leg.”

Who acts: old woman, stairs, you, my · What happens: keep, say, let, go, be, break · To what, where: precious treasure, old woman, leg · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, stairs, you, my), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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