The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 44

Then the beautiful lady said: “Go forth at once, and do not return to say good-by to your mother, for these things must be done quickly, and the Shoes of Swiftness themselves will carry you to the land of the Three Gray Sisters--for they know the measure of that way.”

Who acts: beautiful lady, Shoes, things · What happens: say, go, not return, do, carry, know · To what, where: good, things, you, land, measure, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful lady, Shoes, things), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Go	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Go	punct
8	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
9	forth	forth	ADV	_	8 Go	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 Go	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 return	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 return	cc
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 return	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 return	advmod
16	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 Go	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 return	xcomp
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 say	obj
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 good	punct
21	by	by	ADP	_	24 mother	case
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 mother	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mother	nmod:poss
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 say	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 done	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	31 done	case
27	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 things	det
28	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 done	nsubj:pass
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 done	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 done	aux:pass
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 return	advcl
32	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	31 done	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 carry	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 carry	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Shoes	det
36	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 carry	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Swiftness	case
38	Swiftness	Swiftness	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Shoes	nmod
39	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 Shoes	nmod
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 carry	aux
41	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 Go	parataxis
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 carry	obj
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 land	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 land	det
45	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 carry	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	50 Sisters	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 Sisters	det
48	Three	Three	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Sisters	compound
49	Gray	Gray	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Sisters	amod
50	Sisters	Sister	PROPN	Number=Plur	45 land	nmod
51	--	--	PUNCT	_	54 know	punct
52	for	for	SCONJ	_	54 know	mark
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 know	nsubj
54	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 carry	parataxis
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 measure	det
56	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 know	obj
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 way	case
58	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	59 way	det
59	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 measure	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Go	punct
61	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the beautiful lady			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	infinitive					forth property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
3	not return in a quote	infinitive · do-support						tree rules
4	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive		good			by your mother	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent good=Topic
5	do in a quote	must · passive		this things			quickly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6	carry in a quote	future	the Shoes of Swiftness shoes	you	the land of the Three Gray Sisters			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to land=Destination
7	know in a quote	present	things = thing	the measure of that way				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer measure=Stimulus
8	measure in a quote			that way				nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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