The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 30

The fairies, who have taken care of me ever since I was born, wished me to be in ignorance as to my family, but they have looked after my education, and have bestowed on me endless kindness.

Who acts: fairies, me, my · What happens: take, bear, wish, be, look, bestow · To what, where: care, I, me, ignorance, endless kindness

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairies, me, my), 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 fairies	det
2	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wished	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 taken	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 taken	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	aux
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 fairies	acl:relcl
7	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 care	nmod
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 taken	advmod
11	since	since	SCONJ	_	14 born	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 born	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 born	aux:pass
14	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 taken	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fairies	punct
16	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 wished	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	21 ignorance	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 ignorance	cop
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 ignorance	case
21	ignorance	ignorance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wished	advcl
22	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	25 family	case
23	to	to	ADP	_	22 as	fixed
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 family	nmod:poss
25	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ignorance	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 looked	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 looked	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 looked	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 looked	aux
30	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 wished	parataxis
31	after	after	ADP	_	33 education	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 education	nmod:poss
33	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 looked	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 bestowed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 bestowed	cc
36	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 bestowed	aux
37	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 wished	parataxis
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 me	case
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 bestowed	obl
40	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 kindness	amod
41	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bestowed	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · perfect	the fairies	care of me		ever		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	bear	past · passive		I				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	wish	past	the fairies	me				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
4	is	to-infinitive	the fairies not said here		ignorance		as my family	tree rules
5	look	present · perfect	fairies = fairy			after my education		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	bestow	present · perfect		endless kindness			on me	tree rules
7	care		me					nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent
8	educate		my					nom education «act 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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