The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 78

‘Go home to thy mother’; and turning his back he strode straight to the castle.

Who acts: you, father · What happens: go, turn, stride · To what, where: back, castle

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, father), 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	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 mother	case
5	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Go	obl
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 strode	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 strode	cc
10	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 strode	csubj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 back	nmod:poss
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turning	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 strode	nsubj
14	strode	stride	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	advcl
15	straight	straight	ADV	_	18 castle	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 castle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 castle	det
18	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 strode	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here		to thy mother; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location
2	turn	gerund		father's back		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
3	stride	past	father	the castle		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme castle=Trajectory

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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