--- title: “Take this water and sprinkle it on one of the fallen trees, and say… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Take this water and sprinkle it on one of the fallen trees, and say to it: ‘So let all the trees of the forest stand upright,’ and in a moment they will be erect again.” Who acts: you, trees, commands. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, trees, commands), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3282:24:20 # text = “Take this water and sprinkle it on one of the fallen trees, and say to it: ‘So let all the trees of the forest stand upright,’ and in a moment they will be erect again.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 sprinkle sprinkle VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 So so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 23 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 25 det:predet _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 xcomp _ _ 30 upright upright ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 cop _ _ 40 erect erect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 41 again again ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | this water | | | again | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 2 | **sprinkle** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | water | | | | on one of the fallen trees | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on one=Destination | | 3 | **fall** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | tree | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient | | 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stand** *in a quote* | present | all trees of the forest | | | | | upright *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | future | commands *= command* | | | | moment | erect *property* | tree rules | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/24/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/24/21/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/24/)