The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 17

Make yourself quite small, get into my throat—go into my gizzard and I will carry you.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: make, get, go, carry · To what, where: yourself, throat, gizzard, you

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Make	obj
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Make	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Make	parataxis
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 throat	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 throat	nmod:poss
9	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
11	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Make	parataxis
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 gizzard	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 gizzard	nmod:poss
14	gizzard	gizzard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 carry	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 carry	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 carry	aux
18	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 carry	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Make	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	yourself		small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yourself=Product
2	get	infinitive			my throat		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into throat=Destination
3	go	infinitive			my gizzard		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into gizzard=Initial_Location
4	carry	future	I	you			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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