The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 164
‘Bring me the child to-morrow, and again the following day; after that I must wander with the herd far away to other lands.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: bring, follow, wander · To what, where: child, 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 (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 Bring | punct |
| 2 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Bring | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bring | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 morrow | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 to | punct |
| 8 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bring | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 day | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 day | cc |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 day | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 13 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bring | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 wander | punct |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 wander | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 wander | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 wander | aux |
| 20 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Bring | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 herd | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 herd | det |
| 23 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wander | obl |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 away | advmod |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 wander | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 lands | case |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lands | amod |
| 28 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 away | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | the child | me | day | to morrow | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination child=Theme | |
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | wander | must | I | after that | with the herd; away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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