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title: Stay with me and be my little maid, and if you do your work well I w… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Stay with me and be my little maid, and if you do your work well I will reward you handsomely; but you must be very careful how you make my bed—you must shake it well till the feathers fly; then people in the world below say it snows, for I am Mother Holle.’ Who acts: you, I, feathers, people. A sen
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 19

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Stay with me and be my little maid, and if you do your work well I will reward you handsomely; but you must be very careful how you make my bed—you must shake it well till the feathers fly; then people in the world below say it snows, for I am Mother Holle.’

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**Who acts:** you, I, feathers, people, it, your · **What happens:** stay, be, do, reward, make, shake · **To what, where:** little maid, work, you, bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (you, I, feathers, people), 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:pg540:44:19
# text = Stay with me and be my little maid, and if you do your work well I will reward you handsomely; but you must be very careful how you make my bed—you must shake it well till the feathers fly; then people in the world below say it snows, for I am Mother Holle.’
1	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	reward	reward	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
29	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
40	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
43	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
45	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	51	advmod	_	_
46	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	below	below	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	snows	snow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	for	for	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
58	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	ccomp	_	_
59	Holle	Holle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my little maid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | your work |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 4 | **reward** | future | I |  | you |  |  | handsomely *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | must | you |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | present | you | my bed |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Product |
| 7 | **shake** | must | you | bed |  |  |  | well *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 8 | **fly** | present | the feathers |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people in the world |  |  |  | then | below *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 10 | **snow** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 11 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | for Mother | tree rules |
| 12 | **work** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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