The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 9

“If you’re thirsty,” said the maid, “dismount yourself, and lie down by the water and drink; I don’t mean to be your servant any longer.”

Who acts: you, maid · What happens: be, say, dismount, lie down, not mean · To what, where: yourself, servant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, maid), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 ’re	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 ’re	nsubj
4	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
5	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ’re	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ’re	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 ’re	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 maid	det
10	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dismount	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 dismount	punct
13	dismount	dismount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
14	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 dismount	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lie	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lie	cc
17	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 dismount	conj
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 lie	compound:prt
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 water	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lie	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drink	cc
23	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 water	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 mean	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 mean	nsubj
26	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 mean	aux
27	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 mean	advmod
28	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	32 servant	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 servant	cop
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 servant	nmod:poss
32	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mean	obj
33	any	any	ADV	_	34 longer	advmod
34	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 servant	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 mean	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	does a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you		thirsty property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the maid			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	dismount in a quote	infinitive		yourself		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient
4	lie down in a quote	infinitive			by the water and drink	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by water=Location
5	not mean in a quote	present · do-support	the maid = maid			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	to-infinitive		your servant	long property	tree rules

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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