The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 51

‘No,’ he answered, ‘there is no need for that; only go and hide under that tub till our eleven brothers come in, and I’ll soon make matters right with them.’

Who acts: Benjamin, need, you, eleven brothers, I · What happens: answer, be, go, hide, come in, make · To what, where: tub · 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 (Benjamin, need, you, eleven brothers), 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	_	6 answered	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answered	nsubj
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 go	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 is	expl
10	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	ccomp
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 need	det
12	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 is	nsubj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 that	case
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 need	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
17	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hide	cc
19	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 go	conj
20	under	under	ADP	_	22 tub	case
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 tub	det
22	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hide	obl
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 come	mark
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 brothers	nmod:poss
25	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 brothers	nummod
26	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 come	nsubj
27	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hide	advcl
28	in	in	ADV	_	27 come	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 make	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 make	cc
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 make	nsubj
32	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 make	aux
33	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 make	advmod
34	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 go	parataxis
35	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 right	cop
36	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 make	xcomp
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 right	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Benjamin			tree rules
2	be	present	no need for that	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	imperative	you not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hide	infinitive	you not said here	that tub		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tub=Location
5	come in	present	our eleven brothers			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	make	future	I		soon property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	I not said here		with brothers = brother; right property	tree rules

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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