The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 6

‘Well, since you’ve dropped the spindle down, you must just go after it yourself, and don’t let me see your face again until you bring it with you.’

Who acts: you, me · What happens: drop down, go, not let, see, bring · To what, where: you, yourself, me, face

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me), 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	_	7 dropped	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 dropped	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	since	since	SCONJ	_	7 dropped	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 dropped	nsubj
6	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dropped	aux:pass
7	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 go	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spindle	det
9	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dropped	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	7 dropped	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dropped	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 go	obl
18	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 go	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 let	cc
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 let	aux
22	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 let	advmod
23	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 go	parataxis
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 let	obj
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 face	nmod:poss
27	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	obj
28	again	again	ADV	_	25 see	advmod
29	until	until	SCONJ	_	31 bring	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 bring	nsubj
31	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 see	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bring	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 you	case
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 bring	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	drop down	present · passive		you			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme spindle=Destination
2	go	must	you	yourself	after spindle		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not let	infinitive · do-support		me			tree rules
4	see	infinitive	me not said here	your face	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
5	bring	present	you	face		with you	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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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