The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 8

Close beside the rock a stick is standing, and when you want me for anything you have only to knock at the wall of rock with that.’

Who acts: you, stick · What happens: close, stand, want, have, knock · To what, where: rock, me

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, stick), 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	Close	close	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	beside	beside	ADP	_	4 rock	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rock	det
4	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Close	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stick	det
6	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 standing	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 standing	aux
8	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 rock	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 have	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 want	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 want	nsubj
13	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 have	advcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 want	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 anything	case
16	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 want	obl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Close	advcl
19	only	only	ADV	_	21 knock	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 knock	mark
21	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 have	xcomp
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 wall	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wall	det
24	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 knock	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 rock	case
26	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wall	nmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 that	case
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 rock	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Close	punct
30	’	'	SYM	_	1 Close	discourse

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	close	imperative	you not said here		the rock		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	stand	present · progressive	a stick	the rock not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus
3	want	present	you	me		for anything	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
4	have	present	you				tree rules
5	knock	to-infinitive	you not said here			at the wall of rock with that	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at wall=Patient

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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