The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 87

But the kitchen-maid wept the whole night long, and said, ‘I have freed you in a wood and from an iron stove; I sought you and have crossed a glassy mountain, three sharp swords, and a great lake to find you, and now you will not hear me!’

Who acts: kitchen maid, I, you · What happens: weep, say, free, seek, cross, find · To what, where: you, 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 (kitchen 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 wept	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maid	det
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 maid	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 kitchen	punct
5	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wept	nsubj
6	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 night	amod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wept	obl:unmarked
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 wept	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wept	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 freed	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 freed	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 freed	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 freed	aux
18	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 said	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 freed	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 wood	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 wood	det
22	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 freed	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stove	cc
24	from	from	ADP	_	27 stove	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 stove	det
26	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stove	compound
27	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wood	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 sought	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 sought	nsubj
30	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wept	parataxis
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 sought	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 crossed	cc
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 crossed	aux
34	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 sought	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 mountain	det
36	glassy	glassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 mountain	amod
37	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 crossed	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 swords	punct
39	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 swords	nummod
40	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 swords	amod
41	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 mountain	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 lake	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 lake	cc
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 lake	det
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 lake	amod
46	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wept	parataxis
47	to	to	PART	_	48 find	mark
48	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 lake	acl
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 find	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 hear	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 hear	cc
52	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	56 hear	advmod
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	56 hear	nsubj
54	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 hear	aux
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 hear	advmod
56	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wept	parataxis
57	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 hear	obj
58	!	!	PUNCT	_	56 hear	punct
59	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	the kitchen maid			night	long property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the kitchen maid not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	free	present · perfect	I	you	a wood and a iron stove			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer you=Source
4	seek	past	I	you				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	cross	present · perfect	I not said here	a glassy mountain and three sharp swords				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient
6	find	to-infinitive	the kitchen maid not said here	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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