English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 23

And the thing to do is this: after you have entered the land of Fairy, whoever speaks to you, till you meet the Burd Ellen, you must out with your father's brand and off with their head.

Who acts: thing, you, whoever, father · What happens: do, enter, be, speak, meet, brand · To what, where: entered land, you, Burd Ellen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, you, whoever, father), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 land	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 land	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thing	acl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 land	cop
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 land	nsubj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 entered	punct
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 entered	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 entered	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 entered	aux
12	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 land	amod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 land	det
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Fairy	case
16	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 land	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 speaks	punct
18	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 speaks	nsubj
19	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 land	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 speaks	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 meet	punct
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	25 meet	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 meet	nsubj
25	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 speaks	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Ellen	det
27	Burd	Burd	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Ellen	compound
28	Ellen	Ellen	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 meet	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 must	punct
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 must	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 Ellen	nmod
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 must	compound:prt
33	with	with	ADP	_	37 brand	case
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 father	nmod:poss
35	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 brand	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 father	case
37	brand	brand	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 must	nmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 off	cc
39	off	off	ADV	_	31 must	conj
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 head	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 head	nmod:poss
42	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 off	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 land	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	to-infinitive	the thing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	enter	present · perfect	you				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	the thing	the entered land		of Fairy	tree rules
4	speak speech: other	present	whoever		you		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent
5	meet	present	you	the Burd Ellen			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ellen=Co-Agent
6	brand		your father				nom brand «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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