The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 9

When you have cut down one tree with it just say: ‘So let the forest fall,’ and in an instant all the trees will be on the ground.

Who acts: you · What happens: cut down, say, let, be · To what, where: one tree, forest fall, ground · 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), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 cut	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 cut	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	aux
4	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 say	advcl
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 cut	compound:prt
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 tree	nummod
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 say	obl
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 say	advmod
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
14	So	so	ADV	_	15 let	advmod
15	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 say	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fall	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fall	compound
18	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 let	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 instant	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 instant	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 instant	det
24	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 let	conj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 trees	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 trees	det
27	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 let	obj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 ground	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 ground	cop
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 ground	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ground	det
32	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trees	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cut down	present · perfect	you	one tree			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product
2	say speech: assert	present				with tree	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with it=Manner
3	let	infinitive		the forest fall			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent fall=Recipient tree=Theme
4	is	future			the ground		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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