The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 128

‘May there grow a golden hemlock out of my body! perhaps my mother will know me by that token.’

Who acts: mother · What happens: grow, know · To what, where: golden hemlock, body, me

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	_	4 grow	punct
2	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 grow	advmod
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hemlock	det
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hemlock	amod
7	hemlock	hemlock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 body	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 body	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 body	nmod:poss
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
13	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	17 know	advmod
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 know	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grow	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 know	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 token	case
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 token	det
21	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 know	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grow	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 grow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	may		a golden hemlock		my body; there			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hemlock=Theme
2	know	future	my mother	me				by that token; perhaps property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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