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title: ‘Little Bright-eyes, little Redskin, Come nurse the child you bore! — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Little Bright-eyes, little Redskin, Come nurse the child you bore! Who acts: Little Bright eyes, you. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 160

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‘Little Bright-eyes, little Redskin, Come nurse the child you bore!

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**Who acts:** Little Bright eyes, you · **What happens:** come, bore · **To what, where:** nurse, child

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Bright eyes, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg540:14:160
# text = ‘Little Bright-eyes, little Redskin, Come nurse the child you bore!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Redskin	Redskin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	bore	bore	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | Little Bright eyes | nurse |  |  |  | the child *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nurse=Theme |
| 2 | **bore** | present | you | the child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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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