The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 44

When they have grown as tall as a girl of fifteen, say to each of them, ‘’My beautiful laurel, with the golden rake I have raked you, with the golden bucket I have watered you, with the silken towel I have wiped you.

Who acts: laurel, you, beautiful laurel, I · What happens: grow, say, rake, water, wipe · To what, where: each, you, golden bucket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (laurel, you, beautiful laurel, I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 grown	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grown	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grown	aux
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 say	advcl
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 tall	advmod
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grown	xcomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 girl	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grown	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 fifteen	case
11	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 girl	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grown	punct
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 each	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 say	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 each	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 each	punct
19	‘’	‘'	PUNCT	_	30 raked	punct
20	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 laurel	nmod:poss
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 laurel	amod
22	laurel	laurel	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 raked	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 rake	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 rake	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rake	det
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 rake	amod
27	rake	rake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laurel	conj
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 raked	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 raked	aux
30	raked	rake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 each	acl
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 raked	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bucket	punct
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 bucket	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bucket	det
35	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bucket	amod
36	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 raked	obl
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 watered	nsubj
38	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 watered	aux
39	watered	water	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 bucket	acl:relcl
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 watered	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 towel	punct
42	with	with	ADP	_	45 towel	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 towel	det
44	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 towel	amod
45	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 raked	obl
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 wiped	nsubj
47	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 wiped	aux
48	wiped	wipe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 towel	acl:relcl
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 wiped	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grow	present · perfect	laurel			as a girl of fifteen; tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	each			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent each=Topic
3	rake	present · perfect	My beautiful laurel and the golden rake	you		with the golden bucket; with the silken towel	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent you=Initial_Location
4	water	present · perfect	I	the golden bucket not said here	you		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Destination
5	wipe	present · perfect	I	you			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent you=Source

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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