The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 254

‘I pray that Heaven may send you to sleep,’ said the golden bird, ‘and that the goose may burn, so that there may be none left for Titty.’

Who acts: I, Heaven, goose · What happens: pray, send, sleep, say, burn, leave · To what, where: you, golden bird · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, Heaven, goose), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 pray	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 pray	nsubj
3	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 send	mark
5	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 send	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 send	aux
7	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pray	ccomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 send	iobj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sleep	mark
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 send	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pray	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 pray	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bird	det
15	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bird	amod
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
18	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	24 burn	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 burn	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 burn	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 goose	det
22	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 burn	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 burn	aux
24	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 be	punct
26	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	30 be	mark
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 so	fixed
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 be	expl
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 be	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 burn	advcl
31	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	30 be	nsubj
32	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 none	acl
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 Titty	case
34	Titty	Titty	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 left	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 burn	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 burn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	pray	present	I				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	send	may	Heaven		you		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	sleep	to-infinitive	Heaven not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past		the golden bird			tree rules
5	burn	may	the goose				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
6	leave	participle				for Titty	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for titty=Recipient

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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