The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 139

As Thumbelina pleased her, she said: ‘As far as I am concerned you may spend the winter with me; but you must keep my room clean and tidy, and tell me stories, for I like that very much.’

Who acts: creature, I, you · What happens: say, be, spend, keep, tell, like · To what, where: room, stories, me, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, I, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 pleased	mark
2	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pleased	compound
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	advcl
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pleased	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pleased	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 spend	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 far	punct
10	As	as	ADV	_	11 far	advmod
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 spend	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 concerned	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 concerned	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 concerned	cop
15	concerned	concerned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 far	advcl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 spend	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 spend	aux
18	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 winter	det
20	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spend	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 spend	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 keep	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 keep	cc
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 keep	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 keep	aux
27	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 spend	conj
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 room	nmod:poss
29	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 keep	obj
30	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 keep	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 tidy	cc
32	tidy	tidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 clean	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 tell	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 tell	cc
35	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 spend	conj
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 tell	iobj
37	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 tell	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 like	punct
39	for	for	SCONJ	_	41 like	mark
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 like	nsubj
41	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 tell	parataxis
42	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 like	obj
43	very	very	ADV	_	44 much	advmod
44	much	much	ADV	_	41 like	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 spend	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 spend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	creature					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present	I				concerned property	tree rules
3	spend	may	you			winter	with me; far property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	keep	must	you	my room			clean property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	stories	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=Topic
6	like	present	I	that				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=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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