The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 63
Take you the child; I will give the other one work, lest she weary.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: take, give · To what, where: you, other one work
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), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 child | det |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Take | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 work | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 work | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 work | compound |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 weary | punct |
| 14 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 16 weary | case |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 weary | nsubj |
| 16 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 give | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Theme child=Destination | ||||
| 2 | give | future | I | the other one work | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=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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