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title: Make yourself quite small, get into my throat—go into my gizzard and… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Make yourself quite small, get into my throat—go into my gizzard and I will carry you.’ Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 7

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Make yourself quite small, get into my throat—go into my gizzard and I will carry you.’

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** make, get, go, carry · **To what, where:** yourself, throat, gizzard, you

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. 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:pg540:31:7
# text = Make yourself quite small, get into my throat—go into my gizzard and I will carry you.’
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	gizzard	gizzard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  | small *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yourself=Product |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive |  |  |  | my throat |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into throat=Destination |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | my gizzard |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into gizzard=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **carry** | future | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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