The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 191

Alas! wherefore take me home with you again,’ cried the young woman, ‘since the witch is sure to eat me up?’

Who acts: you, witch · What happens: take, cry, be, eat up · To what, where: me, young woman

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, witch), 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	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	4 take	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Alas	punct
3	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	4 take	advmod
4	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	home	home	ADV	_	4 take	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 take	obl
9	again	again	ADV	_	4 take	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 take	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cried	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sure	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 sure	punct
18	since	since	SCONJ	_	22 sure	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 witch	det
20	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sure	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sure	cop
22	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cried	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 eat	mark
24	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sure	xcomp
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 eat	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 eat	compound:prt
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here		me	again	with you; home, wherefore property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
2	cry speech: express	past		the young woman				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic
3	is	present	the witch				sure property	tree rules
4	eat up	to-infinitive	the witch not said here	me				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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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