The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 12

You will ask her how she is, and come back at once, without stopping to chatter on the way with people you don’t know.

Who acts: You, mother · What happens: ask, be, come back, stop, chatter, not know · To what, where: mother, way, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, mother), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 ask	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	aux
3	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ask	iobj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 is	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 is	nsubj
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 come	cc
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ask	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 come	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stopping	punct
15	without	without	SCONJ	_	16 stopping	mark
16	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 come	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 chatter	mark
18	chatter	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 stopping	xcomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 way	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 chatter	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 people	case
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 chatter	obl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 know	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 know	aux
26	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 know	advmod
27	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 people	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	future	You		mother			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	be	present	mother					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come back	infinitive	You not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
4	stop	gerund	You not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	chatter	to-infinitive	You not said here			the way	with people	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with people=Co-Agent
6	not know	present · do-support	you	people not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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