The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 87

‘Take you the little one; I will give the other girl work to do, else she will weary at home alone.’

Who acts: you, I, witch · What happens: take, give, do, weary · To what, where: you, other girl work, home

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), 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 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Take	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 give	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 give	aux
10	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Take	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 work	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 work	amod
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 work	compound
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 give	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 work	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 weary	punct
18	else	else	ADV	_	21 weary	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 weary	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 weary	aux
21	weary	weary	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 give	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 home	case
23	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 weary	obl
24	alone	alone	ADV	_	21 weary	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	you			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Theme one=Destination
2	give	future	I	the other girl work			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
3	do	to-infinitive	I not said here	the other girl work not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	weary	future	witch		home	alone, else property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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