The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 7

‘Don’t be anxious,’ said the old man, throwing the stalks back into the basket; ‘just go on and carry the basket to the castle, and it will bring you luck.’

Who acts: old man, stalk · What happens: not be, say, throw back, go on, carry, bring · To what, where: stalks, basket, castle, luck, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, stalk), 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	_	5 anxious	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 anxious	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 anxious	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 anxious	cop
5	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 anxious	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 anxious	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 throwing	punct
13	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stalks	det
15	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 throwing	obj
16	back	back	ADV	_	13 throwing	advmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 basket	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 basket	det
19	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throwing	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
22	just	just	ADV	_	23 go	advmod
23	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
24	on	on	ADV	_	23 go	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 carry	cc
26	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 go	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 basket	det
28	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carry	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 castle	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 castle	det
31	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carry	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bring	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 bring	cc
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 bring	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 bring	aux
36	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 go	conj
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 bring	obj
38	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bring	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	infinitive · do-support					anxious property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	throw back	gerund	the old man not said here	the stalks			into the basket result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer stalk=Theme into basket=Result
4	go on	infinitive						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	carry	infinitive		the basket		the castle		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent basket=Theme to castle=Destination
6	bring	future	stalk	luck	you			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination luck=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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