The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 152

‘I’ll take it with me to-morrow when I go to drive the cows to the wood.

Who acts: I · What happens: take, go, drive · To what, where: wood, morrow, cows

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 (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	_	4 take	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 take	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 morrow	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 to	punct
10	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 go	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
13	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 take	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 drive	mark
15	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 go	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cows	det
17	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 drive	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 wood	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wood	det
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drive	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	future	I	wood	morrow	with me	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to morrow=Destination
2	go	present	I				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	drive	to-infinitive	I not said here	the cows	the wood		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cow=Theme to wood=Trajectory

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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