The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 38

‘I am starting at once,’ said he to his brothers, ‘and if after a year, a month, a week, and a day I have not returned with the water from the spring of the Fairy of the Dawn, you, Costan, had better come after me.’

Who acts: I, Florea · What happens: start, say, not return, come · To what, where: brothers, day · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (I, Florea), 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	_	4 starting	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 starting	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 starting	aux
4	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 starting	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 starting	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 starting	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 brothers	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 brothers	nmod:poss
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ‘	punct
15	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brothers	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 come	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 had	mark
18	after	after	ADP	_	20 year	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 year	det
20	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 had	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 month	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 month	det
23	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 year	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 week	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 week	det
26	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 year	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 you	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 you	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 day	det
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 you	obl:unmarked
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 returned	nsubj
32	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 returned	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 returned	advmod
34	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 day	acl:relcl
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 water	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 water	det
37	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 returned	obl
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 spring	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 spring	det
40	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 returned	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 Fairy	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Fairy	det
43	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 spring	nmod
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 Dawn	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Dawn	det
46	Dawn	Dawn	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Fairy	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 you	punct
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 year	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 Costan	punct
50	Costan	Costan	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 you	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 year	punct
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 come	aux
53	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	52 had	xcomp
54	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 brothers	conj
55	after	after	ADP	_	56 me	case
56	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 come	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
58	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	start	present · progressive	I					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	Florea		Florea's brothers and ‘			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not return	present · perfect	I	a day not said here		spring	with the water	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Theme
4	come	past	Florea not said here			after me		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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