The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 170
‘Little Bright-eyes, little Redskin, Come nurse the child you bore!
Who acts: Little Bright eyes, you · What happens: come, bore · To what, where: nurse, child
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 (Little Bright eyes, you), 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 | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 3 | Bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bright | punct |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Come | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Redskin | punct |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Redskin | amod |
| 8 | Redskin | Redskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 eyes | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Redskin | punct |
| 10 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Come | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Come | obl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 bore | nsubj |
| 15 | bore | bore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 child | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | Little Bright eyes | nurse | the child obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nurse=Theme | |||
| 2 | bore | present | you | the child not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=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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