The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 29

‘Go you on in front, old man, with our youngest; I will give the elder girl work to keep her from being dull in our absence.’

Who acts: you, I, witch, our · What happens: go on, give, keep, be, absent · To what, where: you, front, elder girl work, witch, absence

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, witch, our), 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 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Go	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	2 Go	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 front	case
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Go	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 front	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 youngest	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 youngest	case
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 youngest	nmod:poss
13	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 Go	parataxis
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 give	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 youngest	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 work	det
19	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 work	amod
20	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 work	compound
21	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 keep	mark
23	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 give	advcl
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 keep	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 dull	case
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 dull	cop
27	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 keep	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 absence	case
29	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 absence	nmod:poss
30	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dull	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go on	imperative	you not said here	you	front and old man		tree rules
2	give	future	I	the elder girl work			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
3	keep	to-infinitive	I not said here	witch			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	is	gerund	witch not said here		our absence	dull property	tree rules
5	absent		our				nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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