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title: ‘Bring me the child to-morrow, and again the following day; after th… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Bring me the child to-morrow, and again the following day; after that I must wander with the herd far away to other lands.’ Who acts: you, I. 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 164

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‘Bring me the child to-morrow, and again the following day; after that I must wander with the herd far away to other lands.’

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** bring, follow, wander · **To what, where:** child, me

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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 (you, I), 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:pg540:14:164
# text = ‘Bring me the child to-morrow, and again the following day; after that I must wander with the herd far away to other lands.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* | the child | me |  | day | to morrow | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination child=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wander** | must | I |  |  |  | after that | with the herd; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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