The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 167

‘Take it, and carry it about in the open air; the boy is quieter at night, to be sure, when he has been in the wood all day.’

Who acts: you, boy · What happens: take, carry, be · To what, where: course, 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, boy), 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 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Take	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 carry	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 carry	cc
6	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carry	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	12 air	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 air	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 air	det
11	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 air	amod
12	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 quieter	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 quieter	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 quieter	cop
17	quieter	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 Take	parataxis
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 night	case
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 quieter	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sure	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	23 sure	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 sure	cop
23	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 quieter	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wood	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 wood	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wood	nsubj
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 wood	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 wood	cop
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 wood	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wood	det
31	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sure	ccomp
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 day	det
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sure	obl:unmarked
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	course				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	carry	infinitive	you not said here	course			about the open air	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	is	present	the boy			night	quiet property	tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	the boy not said here			day	sure property	tree rules
5	is	present · perfect	boy		the wood			tree rules

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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