The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 128

When you reach the river tie this ball to your foot, and it will take you across—you cannot manage it in any other way.

Who acts: you, it · What happens: reach, tie, take, not manage · To what, where: river, ball, you, other way

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, it), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reach	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 reach	nsubj
3	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tie	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reach	obj
6	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 ball	det
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tie	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 foot	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 foot	nmod:poss
11	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tie	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 take	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 take	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 take	aux
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tie	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 take	obj
18	across	across	ADV	_	16 take	advmod
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 manage	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 manage	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 manage	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 manage	advmod
23	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 take	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 manage	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 way	case
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 way	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 way	amod
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 manage	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	present	you	the river				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent river=Theme
2	tie	imperative	you not said here	this ball			to your foot	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ball=Patient to foot=Co-Patient
3	take	future	it		you		across property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
4	not manage	can	you	ball		any other way		vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Theme in way=Eventuality

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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