The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 10

“Well, you are just the right one to watch the hay, you who have never learned anything but how to sit among the ashes and bake yourself!” said they.

Who acts: you, others · What happens: be, watch, not learn, sit, bake, say · To what, where: right one, hay, anything, ashes, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, others), 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	_	9 one	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	9 one	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 one	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 one	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 one	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 said	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 watch	mark
11	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 one	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hay	det
13	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 watch	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 learned	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 learned	nsubj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 learned	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 learned	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 learned	advmod
19	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 one	parataxis
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 learned	obj
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 sit	cc
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 sit	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 sit	mark
24	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 learned	conj
25	among	among	ADP	_	27 ashes	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ashes	det
27	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sit	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bake	cc
29	bake	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sit	conj
30	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 bake	obj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 bake	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 sit	punct
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 said	nsubj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	you	the right one		tree rules
2	watch in a quote	to-infinitive	others = other not said here	the hay		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Theme
3	not learn in a quote	present · perfect	you	anything		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
4	sit in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		the ashes	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among ash=Location
5	bake in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	yourself		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Product
6	say speech: express	past	others = other			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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