The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 58
With these thistles and nettles she can feed a donkey which she can ride whenever she likes; under this humble roof no weather can hurt her; she will drink the water of this brook and eat frogs--which grow very fat about here; and then she will have me always with her, handsome, agreeable, and gay as you see me now.
Who acts: Bellissima, donkey, weather, frogs, you · What happens: feed, ride, be, hurt, drink, eat · To what, where: donkey, Bellissima, humble roof, water, frogs, me
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bellissima, donkey, weather, frogs), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 thistles | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 thistles | det |
| 3 | thistles | thistle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 feed | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nettles | cc |
| 5 | nettles | nettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thistles | conj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 feed | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 feed | aux |
| 8 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 donkey | det |
| 10 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feed | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 ride | nsubj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ride | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 ride | aux |
| 14 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 donkey | acl:relcl |
| 15 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 ride | ccomp |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 likes | nsubj |
| 17 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 whenever | cop |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 hurt | punct |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 roof | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 roof | det |
| 21 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 roof | amod |
| 22 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hurt | obl |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 weather | det |
| 24 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hurt | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 hurt | aux |
| 26 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 feed | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hurt | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 drink | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 drink | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 drink | aux |
| 31 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 feed | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 water | det |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 drink | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 brook | case |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 brook | det |
| 36 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 water | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 eat | cc |
| 38 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 drink | conj |
| 39 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 eat | obj |
| 40 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 grow | punct |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 grow | nsubj |
| 42 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 frogs | acl:relcl |
| 43 | very | very | ADV | _ | 44 fat | advmod |
| 44 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 grow | xcomp |
| 45 | about | about | ADP | _ | 46 here | case |
| 46 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 fat | obl |
| 47 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 have | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 have | cc |
| 49 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 52 have | advmod |
| 50 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 have | nsubj |
| 51 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 have | aux |
| 52 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 feed | conj |
| 53 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 have | obj |
| 54 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 52 have | advmod |
| 55 | with | with | ADP | _ | 56 her | case |
| 56 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 have | obl |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 handsome | punct |
| 58 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 have | parataxis |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 agreeable | punct |
| 60 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 handsome | conj |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 gay | punct |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 gay | cc |
| 63 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feed | conj |
| 64 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 66 see | mark |
| 65 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 66 see | nsubj |
| 66 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 63 gay | advcl |
| 67 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 66 see | obj |
| 68 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 66 see | advmod |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 feed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | can | Bellissima | a donkey | with this thistles and nettles | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Recipient | |||
| 2 | ride | can | a donkey | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | a donkey not said here | whenever property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hurt | can | no weather | Bellissima | this humble roof | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient | |||
| 5 | drink | future | Bellissima | the water of this brook | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 6 | eat | present | Bellissima not said here | frogs | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient | ||||
| 7 | grow | present | frogs | fat property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | have | future | Bellissima | me | then | with weather; always property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||
| 9 | see | present | you | me | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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