The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 57

‘If only I had straws enough I would make a basket with them, and let my baby down in it from the window to any kind passer-by who would take care of her.’

Who acts: I, kind passer, passer · What happens: have, make, let down, take, care · To what, where: straws, basket, baby, care

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, kind passer, passer), 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	_	10 make	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 make	csubj
6	straws	straw	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 make	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 make	aux
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 basket	det
12	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 make	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 let	cc
17	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 make	conj
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 baby	nmod:poss
19	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 let	obj
20	down	down	ADV	_	17 let	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 let	obl
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 window	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 window	det
25	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 let	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 passer	case
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 passer	det
28	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 passer	amod
29	passer	passer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 window	nmod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 take	punct
31	by	by	SCONJ	_	34 take	mark
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 take	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 take	aux
34	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 passer	appos
35	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 take	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 her	case
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 care	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	past	I	straws		enough property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent straw=Patient
2	make	would	I	a basket		with straws = straw	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Product
3	let down	infinitive	I not said here	my baby	basket	from the window to any kind passer; down property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme
4	take	would	any kind passer	care of passer			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
5	care		passer				nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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