The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 233

Find a home for yourself in one of the lovely flowers that grow down there; now I will set you down, and you can do whatever you like.’

Who acts: you, lovely flowers, I · What happens: find, grow, set down, do, like · To what, where: home, you, whatever

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 (you, lovely flowers, 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	Find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 home	det
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Find	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 yourself	case
5	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Find	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Find	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 flowers	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flowers	det
10	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 flowers	amod
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 grow	nsubj
13	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 flowers	acl:relcl
14	down	down	ADV	_	15 there	advmod
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 grow	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 set	punct
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 set	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 set	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 set	aux
20	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Find	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 set	obj
22	down	down	ADP	_	20 set	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 do	cc
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 do	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Find	conj
28	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 like	obj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 like	nsubj
30	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 do	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Find	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	imperative	you not said here	a home			for yourself; in one of the lovely flowers	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent home=Theme for yourself=Beneficiary
2	grow	present	the lovely flowers		there			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	set down	future	I	you		now		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result
4	do	can	you					tree rules
5	like	present	you	whatever				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whatever=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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