The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 98

‘Let them be,’ was her mother’s reply; ‘if you need them I shall give you finer ones.’

Who acts: you, slippers, reply, I, mother · What happens: let, be, need, give, reply · To what, where: slippers, finer ones, you

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, slippers, reply, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	advcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reply	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 mother	case
11	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 need	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 need	nsubj
16	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 give	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 need	obj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 give	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 give	aux
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 ones	amod
23	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 give	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	slippers = slipper		tree rules
2	be	infinitive	slippers = slipper not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be	past	daughter's mother's reply			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	need a condition, not said to happen	present	you	slippers = slipper		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
5	give	shall	I	finer ones	you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient one=Theme
6	reply		daughter's mother			nom reply «communication 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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