The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 157

‘Carry the child about the wood; perhaps that will pacify it.’

Who acts: you, that · What happens: carry, pacify · To what, where: child, wood

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, that), 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 Carry	punct
2	Carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Carry	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Carry	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 pacify	punct
9	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	12 pacify	advmod
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 pacify	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 pacify	aux
12	pacify	pacify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Carry	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pacify	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Carry	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	imperative	you not said here	the child				about the wood	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
2	pacify	future	that	wood				perhaps property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

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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