The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 39

‘Break off one of my branches, and strike the hearth with it crosswise, and all will be put right.’

Who acts: you · What happens: break off, strike, put · To what, where: one, hearth, all

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), 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 Break	punct
2	Break	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 Break	compound:prt
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Break	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 branches	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 branches	nmod:poss
7	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 strike	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 strike	cc
10	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Break	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hearth	det
12	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 strike	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hearth	nmod
15	crosswise	crosswise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 strike	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 put	cc
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 put	nsubj:pass
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 put	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 put	aux:pass
21	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Break	parataxis
22	right	right	ADV	_	21 put	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Break	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Break	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break off	imperative	you not said here	one of my branches		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient
2	strike	infinitive	you not said here	the hearth	with hearth; crosswise property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hearth=Patient with it=Instrument
3	put	future · passive		all	right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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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