The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 69

If there is such a thing in your garret just throw it down to me, and in return I will promise that your little daughter shall be well taken care of.’

Who acts: thing, you, I · What happens: be, throw down, promise, take · To what, where: garret, me, return, little daughter

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 (thing, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 is	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 throw	advcl
4	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 thing	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 garret	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 garret	nmod:poss
9	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	obl
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 throw	advmod
11	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 throw	obj
13	down	down	ADP	_	11 throw	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 throw	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 promise	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 promise	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 return	case
19	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 promise	obl
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 promise	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 promise	aux
22	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 throw	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 taken	mark
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 daughter	nmod:poss
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 daughter	amod
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 taken	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 taken	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 taken	aux:pass
29	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 taken	advmod
30	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 promise	advcl
31	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 taken	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	30 taken	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 promise	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be a condition, not said to happen	present	such thing			your garret; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garret=Location
2	throw down	imperative	you not said here	garret	me			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Destination
3	promise speech: promise	future	I			return		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	take	shall · passive		your little daughter			well property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme care=Destination

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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