The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 178

‘Come to the wood with me, however; when the woman puts off her reindeer skin I shall comb her head for her; whilst I am doing so you must burn the skin.’

Who acts: you, woman, reindeer skin, I · What happens: come, put off, comb, do, burn · To what, where: wood, head, skin

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, woman, reindeer skin, 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 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 wood	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wood	det
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Come	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Come	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 however	punct
9	however	however	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 puts	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 puts	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 puts	nsubj
14	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Come	advcl
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 puts	compound:prt
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 skin	nmod:poss
17	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 skin	compound
18	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 comb	nsubj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 comb	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 comb	aux
21	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 puts	ccomp
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 comb	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 comb	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 doing	punct
27	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	30 doing	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 doing	nsubj
29	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 doing	aux
30	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 puts	advcl
31	so	so	SCONJ	_	34 burn	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 burn	nsubj
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 burn	aux
34	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 doing	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 skin	det
36	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 burn	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here		the wood	with me; however property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
2	put off	present	the woman				tree rules
3	comb	shall	woman's reindeer skin	woman's head		for woman	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Location for she=Theme
4	do	present · progressive	I				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	burn	must	you	the skin			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=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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