The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 48

The trees grew very fast, and when they were as tall as a girl of fifteen he said to the cherry laurel, ‘My lovely cherry laurel, with the golden rake I have raked thee, with the golden bucket I have watered thee, with the silken towel I have wiped thee.

Who acts: trees, orders, girl, I · What happens: grow, be, say, rake, water, wipe · To what, where: cherry laurel, thee · 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 (trees, orders, girl, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trees	det
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 grew	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tall	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tall	cc
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 tall	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tall	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tall	cop
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 tall	advmod
12	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	parataxis
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 said	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 girl	det
15	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 fifteen	case
17	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 girl	nmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tall	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 laurel	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 laurel	det
22	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laurel	compound
23	laurel	laurel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 laurel	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 laurel	punct
26	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 laurel	nmod:poss
27	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 laurel	amod
28	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 laurel	compound
29	laurel	laurel	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laurel	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 rake	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 rake	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 rake	det
33	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 rake	amod
34	rake	rake	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 laurel	appos
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 raked	nsubj
36	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 raked	aux
37	raked	rake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 rake	acl:relcl
38	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	37 raked	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 bucket	punct
40	with	with	ADP	_	43 bucket	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 bucket	det
42	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 bucket	amod
43	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 raked	obl
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 watered	nsubj
45	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 watered	aux
46	watered	water	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 bucket	acl:relcl
47	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	46 watered	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 towel	punct
49	with	with	ADP	_	52 towel	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 towel	det
51	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 towel	amod
52	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 watered	obl
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 wiped	nsubj
54	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 wiped	aux
55	wiped	wipe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	52 towel	acl:relcl
56	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	55 wiped	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the trees			fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	orders = order			tall property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	a girl of fifteen		the cherry laurel and My lovely cherry laurel		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to laurel=Recipient
4	rake	present · perfect	I	thee		with the golden bucket	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent thou=Initial_Location
5	water	present · perfect	I	thee		with the silken towel	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent thou=Destination with towel=Theme
6	wipe	present · perfect	I	thee			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent thou=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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