The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 43

“I am glad to see you, my dear children; you are very hungry and weary; and my poor Peter, thou art horribly bemired; come in and let me clean thee.”

Who acts: woman, you · What happens: be, see, bemire, come in, let, clean · To what, where: you, poor Peter, woman, thee

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, you), 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	_	4 glad	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 glad	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 glad	cop
4	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 glad	xcomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 children	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 children	nmod:poss
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 children	amod
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 hungry	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 hungry	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 hungry	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 hungry	advmod
16	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 glad	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 weary	cc
18	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hungry	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 bemired	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bemired	cc
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 Peter	nmod:poss
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Peter	amod
23	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 bemired	nsubj:pass
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Peter	punct
25	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 bemired	nsubj:pass
26	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 bemired	aux
27	horribly	horribly	ADV	_	28 bemired	advmod
28	bemired	bemire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 glad	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 glad	parataxis
31	in	in	ADV	_	30 come	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 let	cc
33	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 come	conj
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 let	obj
35	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 let	xcomp
36	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	35 clean	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 glad	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	woman		glad property	tree rules
2	see in a quote	to-infinitive	woman not said here	you	my dear children obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	is in a quote	present	you		hungry property	tree rules
4	be in a quote		you not said here			tree rules
5	bemire in a quote	present · passive		my poor Peter	horribly property	tree rules
6	come in in a quote	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	let in a quote	infinitive		woman		tree rules
8	clean in a quote	infinitive	woman not said here	thee		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thou=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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