The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 171

‘Will you stay and keep house for us, cook, make the beds, the washing, sew and knit? and if you give satisfaction and keep everything neat and clean, you shall want for nothing.’

Who acts: you · What happens: stay, keep, cook, make, sew, knit · To what, where: house, beds, satisfaction, everything

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	4 stay	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 stay	nsubj
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 keep	cc
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stay	conj
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 us	case
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 keep	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cook	punct
11	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stay	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stay	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beds	det
15	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 washing	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 washing	det
18	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beds	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sew	punct
20	sew	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stay	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 knit	cc
22	knit	knit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sew	conj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stay	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 want	cc
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 give	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 give	nsubj
27	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 want	advcl
28	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 keep	cc
30	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 give	conj
31	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	30 keep	obj
32	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 keep	xcomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 clean	cc
34	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 neat	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 give	punct
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 want	nsubj
37	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 want	aux
38	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stay	conj
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 nothing	case
40	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	38 want	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stay	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 stay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stay	future	you			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here	house	for us	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
3	cook	infinitive	you not said here			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	make	infinitive	you not said here	the beds and the washing		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bed=Product
5	sew	infinitive	you not said here			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	knit	infinitive	you not said here			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	give a condition, not said to happen	present	you	satisfaction		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satisfaction=Theme
8	keep	infinitive	you not said here	everything	neat property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
9	want	shall	you		for nothing	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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