The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 26

‘Your desire to go home pleases me,’ said Mother Holle, ‘and because you have served me so faithfully, I will show you the way back into the world myself.’

Who acts: desire, Mother, you, I, Your · What happens: go, please, say, serve, show, desire · To what, where: me, way, you · 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 (desire, Mother, you, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 pleases	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 desire	nmod:poss
3	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pleases	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 desire	acl
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	pleases	please	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 pleases	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pleases	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 pleases	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	Holle	Holle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Mother	flat
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
15	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	20 served	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 served	cc
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 served	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 served	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 served	aux
20	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 served	obj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 faithfully	advmod
23	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	20 served	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 show	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 show	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 show	aux
27	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 served	parataxis
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 show	iobj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 way	det
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 show	obl:unmarked
31	back	back	ADV	_	27 show	advmod
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 world	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 back	obl
35	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	27 show	obl:unmarked
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	to-infinitive	Your desire not said here			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	please	present	Your desire	me			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	Mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	serve	present · perfect	you	me		faithfully property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute
5	show	future	I	the way	you	myself obl:unmarked	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	desire		Your				nom desire «feeling transitive»: 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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