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title: ‘Take you the little one; I will give the other girl work to do, els… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Take you the little one; I will give the other girl work to do, else she will weary at home alone.’ Who acts: you, I, witch. 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 87

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‘Take you the little one; I will give the other girl work to do, else she will weary at home alone.’

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**Who acts:** you, I, witch · **What happens:** take, give, do, weary · **To what, where:** you, other girl work, home

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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, witch), 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:pg540:14:87
# text = ‘Take you the little one; I will give the other girl work to do, else she will weary at home alone.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	else	else	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	weary	weary	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Theme one=Destination |
| 2 | **give** | future | I | the other girl work |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the other girl work *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **weary** | future | witch |  |  | home |  | alone, else *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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