The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 58

“You will spill it all, if you stand so far off,” said the boy; “why don’t you come a little nearer?”

Who acts: You, boy · What happens: spill, stand, say, come · To what, where: smell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, boy), 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	_	4 spill	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 spill	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spill	aux
4	spill	spill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spill	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 it	det
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stand	punct
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 stand	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 stand	nsubj
10	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spill	advcl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 far	advmod
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 off	advmod
13	off	off	ADV	_	10 stand	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stand	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 spill	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 do	advmod
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
23	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 do	advmod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 come	nsubj
25	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 little	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 nearer	obl
28	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 come	xcomp
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spill in a quote	future	You	smell		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	stand a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you		off property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: ask	past	the boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come in a quote	present · do-support	you		near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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