The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 19

Stay with me and be my little maid, and if you do your work well I will reward you handsomely; but you must be very careful how you make my bed—you must shake it well till the feathers fly; then people in the world below say it snows, for I am Mother Holle.’

Who acts: you, I, feathers, people, it, your · What happens: stay, be, do, reward, make, shake · To what, where: little maid, work, you, bed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (you, I, feathers, people), 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	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 me	case
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Stay	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 maid	cc
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 maid	cop
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 maid	nmod:poss
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 maid	amod
8	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 me	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 reward	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 reward	cc
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 do	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 reward	advcl
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 work	nmod:poss
15	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	obj
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 do	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 reward	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 reward	aux
19	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Stay	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 reward	obj
21	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	_	19 reward	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 careful	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 careful	cc
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 careful	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 careful	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 careful	cop
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 careful	advmod
28	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stay	conj
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 make	advmod
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 make	nsubj
31	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 careful	advcl
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 bed	nmod:poss
33	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	obj
34	—	-	PUNCT	_	37 shake	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 shake	nsubj
36	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 shake	aux
37	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Stay	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 shake	obj
39	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 shake	advmod
40	till	till	SCONJ	_	43 fly	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 feathers	det
42	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 fly	nsubj
43	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 shake	advcl
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 say	punct
45	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 say	advmod
46	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 say	nsubj
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 world	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 world	det
49	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 people	nmod
50	below	below	ADV	_	51 say	advmod
51	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	parataxis
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 snows	nsubj
53	snows	snow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 say	ccomp
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 Mother	punct
55	for	for	ADP	_	58 Mother	case
56	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 Mother	nsubj
57	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 Mother	cop
58	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 say	ccomp
59	Holle	Holle	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 Mother	flat
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Stay	punct
61	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Stay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here				with me	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location
2	is a	infinitive	you not said here	my little maid				tree rules
3	do a condition, not said to happen	present	you	your work			well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
4	reward	future	I		you		handsomely property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	is	must	you				careful property	tree rules
6	make	present	you	my bed				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Product
7	shake	must	you	bed			well property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
8	fly	present	the feathers					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	say speech: assert	present	people in the world			then	below property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	snow	present	it					vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
11	is	present	I				for Mother	tree rules
12	work		your					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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 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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