The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 38
Make yourself quite small, go into my throat—get into my gizzard and I will carry you.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: make, go, get, 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 go | punct |
| 6 | go | go | 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 go | obl |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 11 | get | get | 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 get | 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 get | 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 | to whom | where | when | 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 | go | infinitive | my throat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into throat=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | my gizzard | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into gizzard=Destination | |||||
| 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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