The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 81

The maid wept all night long, and said, ‘I freed you in the wild wood out of the iron stove; I have sought you, and have crossed a glassy mountain, three sharp swords, and a great lake before I found you, and will you not hear me now?’

Who acts: maid, I, you · What happens: weep, say, free, seek, cross, find · To what, where: you, wild wood, glassy mountain, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maid	det
2	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wept	nsubj
3	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wept	obl:unmarked
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 wept	advmod
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	3 wept	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 freed	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 freed	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 freed	nsubj
13	freed	free	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 freed	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 wood	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wood	det
17	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wood	compound
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 freed	obl
19	out	out	ADP	_	23 stove	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 stove	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stove	det
22	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stove	amod
23	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 freed	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 sought	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 sought	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 sought	aux
27	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 sought	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 crossed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 crossed	cc
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 crossed	aux
32	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 sought	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 mountain	det
34	glassy	glassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 mountain	amod
35	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crossed	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 swords	punct
37	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 swords	nummod
38	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 swords	amod
39	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sought	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 lake	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 lake	cc
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 lake	det
43	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 lake	amod
44	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sought	obl
45	before	before	SCONJ	_	47 found	mark
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 found	nsubj
47	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sought	advcl
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 found	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 hear	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 hear	cc
51	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 hear	aux
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	54 hear	nsubj
53	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	54 hear	advmod
54	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wept	conj
55	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 hear	obj
56	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	54 hear	advmod
57	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wept	punct
58	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	the maid			night	long property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	free	past	I	you	the wild wood		out the iron stove	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer you=Source
4	seek	present · perfect	I	you			three sharp swords obl; a great lake obl	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	cross	present · perfect	I not said here	a glassy mountain				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient
6	find	past	I	you				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic
7	not hear	future	you	me		now		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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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