The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 36

I brought you here to tell me if the child will grow up pretty and fortunate.’

Who acts: I, child · What happens: bring, tell, grow up · To what, where: you, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, child), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 brought	obj
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 brought	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 brought	advcl
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 grow	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grow	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 grow	aux
12	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 grow	compound:prt
14	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	12 grow	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fortunate	cc
16	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pretty	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brought	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past	I	you	here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	grow up a condition, not said to happen	future	the child			pretty property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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