The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 210

Get down at once, my poor child, and let me dress your hair for you!’

Who acts: you, me · What happens: get down, let, dress · To what, where: poor child, me, hair

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me), 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	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Get	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Get	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 child	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 child	nmod:poss
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 child	amod
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 let	cc
11	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Get	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hair	nmod:poss
15	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dress	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 dress	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Get	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get down	imperative	you not said here	my poor child	down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	me		tree rules
3	dress	infinitive	me not said here	your hair	for you	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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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