The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 143

‘Spit, you wretch, on the blade of my knife; bewitch my knife’s blade for me, and I shall change you into a reindeer of the forest.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: wretch, bewitch, change · To what, where: blade, you, reindeer

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 (you, I), 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 Spit	punct
2	Spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wretch	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wretch	nsubj
5	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Spit	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 blade	punct
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 blade	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 blade	det
9	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Spit	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 knife	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 knife	nmod:poss
12	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blade	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 bewitch	punct
14	bewitch	bewitch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Spit	conj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 knife	nmod:poss
16	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blade	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 knife	case
18	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bewitch	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 bewitch	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 change	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 change	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 change	nsubj
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 change	aux
25	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 bewitch	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 change	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 reindeer	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 reindeer	det
29	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 change	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 forest	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 forest	det
32	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 reindeer	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Spit	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Spit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wretch		you			tree rules
2	bewitch	infinitive		my knife's blade	for me	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus blade=Experiencer
3	change	shall	I	you	into a reindeer of the forest result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent you=Patient into reindeer=Result

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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