The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 140

Every time you come to see me you must bring a skein of silk with you, and I will make a ladder of them, and when it is finished I will climb down by it, and you will take me away on your horse.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: come, see, bring, make, finish, climb down · To what, where: me, skein, ladder · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl:unmarked
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	advcl
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 bring	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 bring	aux
10	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 see	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 skein	det
12	skein	skein	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bring	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 silk	case
14	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 skein	nmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 bring	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 make	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 make	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 make	aux
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 ladder	det
23	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ladder	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 finished	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 finished	cc
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 finished	advmod
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 finished	nsubj:pass
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 finished	aux:pass
31	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 make	advcl
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 climb	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 climb	aux
34	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 finished	parataxis
35	down	down	ADP	_	34 climb	compound:prt
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 climb	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 take	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 take	cc
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 take	nsubj
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 take	aux
42	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 take	obj
44	away	away	ADV	_	42 take	advmod
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 horse	case
46	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 horse	nmod:poss
47	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 take	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	you		time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	you not said here	me			tree rules
3	bring	must	you	a skein of silk		with you	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent skein=Theme
4	make	future	I	a ladder of hands			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Product
5	finish	present · passive		ladder			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
6	climb down	future	I			by ladder	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by it=Trajectory
7	take away	future	you	me		on your horse; away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 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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