The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 40

Go back and bring them to me at once, or it will be the worse for you.’

Who acts: you, bridge · What happens: go back, bring, be · To what, where: paths, me

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bridge), 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	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bring	cc
4	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bring	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 bring	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 bring	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 worse	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 worse	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 worse	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 worse	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 worse	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 worse	det
16	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Go	parataxis
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 worse	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go back	imperative	you not said here				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	bring	infinitive	you not said here	paths = path	me		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Destination
3	is	future	bridge			for you; bad 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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