The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 1

“Oh, if that is all,” cried the princess, “I can set you free myself, for my fairy godmother taught me to know the use of plants and in the desert not far from here there grows a little four-leaved herb which will keep the water in the pit for a whole year.

Who acts: princess, fairy godmother, use, little leaved herb · What happens: cry, set, teach, know, grow, keep · To what, where: you, princess, little leaved herb, water, pit, plants · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, fairy godmother, use, little leaved herb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	10 cried	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 all	mark
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 all	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 all	cop
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 Oh	vocative
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 set	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 set	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 set	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 set	aux
17	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 set	obj
19	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 set	xcomp
20	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 free	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 taught	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 taught	mark
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 godmother	nmod:poss
24	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 godmother	amod
25	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taught	nsubj
26	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 taught	iobj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 know	mark
29	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 taught	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 use	det
31	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 grows	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 plants	case
33	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 use	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 desert	cc
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 desert	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 desert	det
37	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 use	conj
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 far	advmod
39	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 grows	advmod
40	from	from	ADP	_	41 here	case
41	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 far	obl
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 far	advmod
43	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 know	ccomp
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 herb	det
45	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 herb	amod
46	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 leaved	nummod
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 four	punct
48	leaved	leaved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 herb	amod
49	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 grows	obj
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 keep	nsubj
51	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 keep	aux
52	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 herb	acl:relcl
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 water	det
54	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 keep	obj
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 pit	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 pit	det
57	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 keep	obl
58	for	for	ADP	_	61 year	case
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 year	det
60	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 year	amod
61	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 keep	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the princess						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	set in a quote	can	the princess = princess	you				free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result
3	teach speech: other in a quote	past	my fairy godmother		the princess = princess				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	know in a quote	to-infinitive	my fairy godmother not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	grow in a quote	present	the use of plants and the desert	a little leaved herb				far property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herb=Theme
6	keep in a quote	future	a little leaved herb	the water		the pit	year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in pit=Location
7	use in a quote			plants					nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

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.

Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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