The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 120
‘Take the child out into the wood, and never let me see her face again.
Who acts: you, me · What happens: take out, not let, see · To what, where: child, wood, me, face
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 child | det |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 Take | compound:prt |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wood | det |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 let | cc |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 let | advmod |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 face | nmod:poss |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 see | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | imperative | you not said here | the child | the wood | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | |||
| 2 | not let | infinitive | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | me not said here | Queen's face | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |
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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