The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 20

“Take this water and sprinkle it on one of the fallen trees, and say to it: ‘So let all the trees of the forest stand upright,’ and in a moment they will be erect again.”

Who acts: you, trees, commands · What happens: take, sprinkle, fall, say, let, stand · To what, where: water, tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, trees, commands), 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	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sprinkle	cc
6	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sprinkle	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 one	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sprinkle	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 trees	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trees	det
12	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 trees	amod
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 say	cc
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 say	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
21	So	so	ADV	_	22 let	advmod
22	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	parataxis
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 trees	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 trees	det
25	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 stand	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 forest	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 forest	det
28	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 trees	nmod
29	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 let	xcomp
30	upright	upright	ADV	_	29 stand	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stand	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 erect	cc
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 moment	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 moment	det
36	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 erect	obl
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 erect	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 erect	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 erect	cop
40	erect	erect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Take	conj
41	again	again	ADV	_	2 Take	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	imperative	you not said here	this water		again		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	sprinkle in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	water			on one of the fallen trees	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on one=Destination
3	fall in a quote	participle						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		tree			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient
5	let in a quote	infinitive						tree rules
6	stand in a quote	present	all trees of the forest				upright property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	future	commands = command			moment	erect 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 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.

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