The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 67

And the birch rustled its leaves, and said: ‘I have served you longer than I can say, and you never tied a bit of twine even round my branches; and the dear children bound them up with their brightest ribbons.’

Who acts: birch, I, you, dear children · What happens: rustle, say, serve, not tie, bound up · To what, where: leaves, you, bit, branches · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birch, I, you, dear children), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 rustled	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birch	det
3	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rustled	nsubj
4	rustled	rustle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 leaves	nmod:poss
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rustled	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rustled	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 served	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 served	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 served	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 served	aux
14	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 served	obj
16	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 served	advmod
17	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 say	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 say	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 say	aux
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 longer	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tied	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tied	cc
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 tied	nsubj
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 tied	advmod
25	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 served	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bit	det
27	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tied	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 twine	case
29	twine	twine	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bit	nmod
30	even	even	ADV	_	33 branches	advmod
31	round	round	ADP	_	33 branches	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 branches	nmod:poss
33	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 tied	obj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 bound	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 bound	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 children	det
37	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 children	amod
38	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 bound	nsubj
39	bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rustled	conj
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 bound	obj
41	up	up	ADP	_	39 bound	compound:prt
42	with	with	ADP	_	45 ribbons	case
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 ribbons	nmod:poss
44	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	45 ribbons	amod
45	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 bound	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rustled	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 rustled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rustle	past	the birch	birch's leaves		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the birch not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	serve	present · perfect	I	you	long property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute
4	say speech: assert	can	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not tie	past	you	a bit of twine		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient branch=Result
6	bound up	present	the dear children	branches = branch	with children's brightest ribbons	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location they=Theme

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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