The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 44

‘Come then,’ said the old woman, ‘you shall hold the lamp to light me while I pick the peas.’

Who acts: old woman, you, I · What happens: come, say, hold, light, pick · To what, where: lamp, me, peas · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, you, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hold	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 hold	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 hold	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hold	aux
14	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lamp	det
16	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hold	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 light	mark
18	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 hold	xcomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 light	obj
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 pick	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 pick	nsubj
22	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 light	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 peas	det
24	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pick	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 hold	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	come	infinitive			then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the old woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hold	shall	you	the lamp		tree rules
4	light	to-infinitive	you not said here	me		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product
5	pick	present	I	the peas		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Patient

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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