The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 45

Go back by the road thou camest, and lie as before, a night in each house, but be careful not to unloose the bundle till thou art in the place wherein thou wouldst most wish to dwell.’

Who acts: you, thou · What happens: go back, come, lie, be, not unloose, wish · To what, where: road, bundle

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou), 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	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 road	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 road	det
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
6	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 camest	nsubj
7	camest	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 road	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lie	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lie	cc
10	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 before	advmod
12	before	before	ADV	_	10 lie	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 night	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lie	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 night	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 careful	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 careful	cc
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 careful	cop
22	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Go	conj
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 unloose	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 unloose	mark
25	unloose	unloose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 careful	csubj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bundle	det
27	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 unloose	obj
28	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 art	mark
29	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 art	nsubj
30	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 unloose	advcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 place	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 place	det
33	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 art	obl
34	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	38 wish	advmod
35	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	38 wish	nsubj
36	wouldst	would	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	38 wish	aux
37	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 wish	amod
38	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 place	nmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 dwell	mark
40	dwell	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 wish	acl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	imperative	you not said here			by the road	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	come	past	thou	the road not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=Theme
3	lie	infinitive	you not said here		night	before property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	infinitive	you not said here			careful property	tree rules
5	not unloose	to-infinitive		the bundle			tree rules
6	wish	would	thou			wherein property	tree rules
7	dwell	to-infinitive					vn 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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