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title: ‘Wasp’s-nest, Wasp’s-nest, make a sally, Or Drakestail nevermore may… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Wasp’s-nest, Wasp’s-nest, make a sally, Or Drakestail nevermore may rally.’ Who acts: Wasp’s, Drakestail. 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 95

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‘Wasp’s-nest, Wasp’s-nest, make a sally, Or Drakestail nevermore may rally.’

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**Who acts:** Wasp’s, Drakestail · **What happens:** make, rally · **To what, where:** sally

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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 (Wasp’s, Drakestail), 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:pg540:31:95
# text = ‘Wasp’s-nest, Wasp’s-nest, make a sally, Or Drakestail nevermore may rally.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wasp’s	Wasp's	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Wasp’s	Wasp's	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sally	sally	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	Drakestail	Drakestail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	nevermore	nevermore	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	rally	rally	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | infinitive | Wasp’s and Wasp’s nest | a sally |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sally=Product |
| 2 | **rally** | may | Drakestail |  |  |  |  | nevermore *property* | tree rules |

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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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