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title: With these thistles and nettles she can feed a donkey which she can… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With these thistles and nettles she can feed a donkey which she can ride whenever she likes; under this humble roof no weather can hurt her; she will drink the water of this brook and eat frogs--which grow very fat about here; and then she will have me always with her, handsome, agreeable, and gay a
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 58

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With these thistles and nettles she can feed a donkey which she can ride whenever she likes; under this humble roof no weather can hurt her; she will drink the water of this brook and eat frogs--which grow very fat about here; and then she will have me always with her, handsome, agreeable, and gay as you see me now.

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**Who acts:** Bellissima, donkey, weather, frogs, you · **What happens:** feed, ride, be, hurt, drink, eat · **To what, where:** donkey, Bellissima, humble roof, water, frogs, me

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (Bellissima, donkey, weather, frogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:5:58
# text = With these thistles and nettles she can feed a donkey which she can ride whenever she likes; under this humble roof no weather can hurt her; she will drink the water of this brook and eat frogs--which grow very fat about here; and then she will have me always with her, handsome, agreeable, and gay as you see me now.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	thistles	thistle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	nettles	nettle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	ccomp	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
39	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
43	very	very	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	_
45	about	about	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
49	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	52	advmod	_	_
50	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
53	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	52	advmod	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
58	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
60	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
63	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
64	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	66	mark	_	_
65	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj	_	_
66	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	63	advcl	_	_
67	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	66	obj	_	_
68	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	66	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | can | Bellissima |  | a donkey |  |  | with this thistles and nettles | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Recipient |
| 2 | **ride** | can | a donkey |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | a donkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | whenever *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hurt** | can | no weather | Bellissima |  | this humble roof |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient |
| 5 | **drink** | future | Bellissima | the water of this brook |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 6 | **eat** | present | Bellissima *not said here* | frogs |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient |
| 7 | **grow** | present | frogs |  |  |  |  | fat *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **have** | future | Bellissima | me |  |  | then | with weather; always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 9 | **see** | present | you | me |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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