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title: Close beside the rock a stick is standing, and when you want me for… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Close beside the rock a stick is standing, and when you want me for anything you have only to knock at the wall of rock with that.’ Who acts: you, stick. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 8

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Close beside the rock a stick is standing, and when you want me for anything you have only to knock at the wall of rock with that.’

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**Who acts:** you, stick · **What happens:** close, stand, want, have, knock · **To what, where:** rock, me

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, stick), 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:pg540:30:8
# text = Close beside the rock a stick is standing, and when you want me for anything you have only to knock at the wall of rock with that.’
1	Close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	obl	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	SYM	NFP	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the rock |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **stand** | present · progressive | a stick | the rock *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus |
| 3 | **want** | present | you | me |  |  |  | for anything | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **knock** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the wall of rock with that | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at wall=Patient |

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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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