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title: ‘Little green toad whose leg doth twist, Go to the corner of which y… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Little green toad whose leg doth twist, Go to the corner of which you wist, And bring to me the large old kist.’ Who acts: leg, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 58

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‘Little green toad whose leg doth twist, Go to the corner of which you wist, And bring to me the large old kist.’

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**Who acts:** leg, you · **What happens:** do, go, wist, bring · **To what, where:** twist, corner, large old kist, me

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leg, you), 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:pg640:8:58
# text = ‘Little green toad whose leg doth twist, Go to the corner of which you wist, And bring to me the large old kist.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	doth	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	twist	twist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wist	wist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	kist	kist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | leg | twist |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twist=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | the corner |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to corner=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **wist** | present | you |  |  |  |  | of the corner | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | infinitive |  | the large old kist | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kist=Theme to i=Destination |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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