--- title: When they had gone some distance on the road home, the girl turned t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When they had gone some distance on the road home, the girl turned to her husband and said: “Till you step inside the house, be sure you do not look back, whatever you may hear or see.” Who acts: men, girl, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, girl, you), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3282:20:66 # text = When they had gone some distance on the road home, the girl turned to her husband and said: “Till you step inside the house, be sure you do not look back, whatever you may hear or see.” 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 6 det _ _ 6 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 home home ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 21 “ " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Till till SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 step step VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 25 inside inside ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 30 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 ccomp _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 ccomp _ _ 35 back back ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 obj _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 41 or or CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · perfect | men *= man* | some distance | | the road | | home *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme | | 2 | **turn** | past | the girl | | | | | to girl's husband *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to husband=Result | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **step** *in a quote* | present | you | | | the house | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside house=Trajectory | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **look back** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **hear** *in a quote* | may | you | whatever | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whatever=Stimulus | | 8 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/20/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/20/67/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/20/)