--- title: The fairies, who have taken care of me ever since I was born, wished… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The fairies, who have taken care of me ever since I was born, wished me to be in ignorance as to my family, but they have looked after my education, and have bestowed on me endless kindness. Who acts: fairies, me, my. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/12/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Donkey Cabbage, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/12/) / 30 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 30 The fairies, who have taken care of me ever since I was born, wished me to be in ignorance as to my family, but they have looked after my education, and have bestowed on me endless kindness. **Who acts:** fairies, me, my · **What happens:** take, bear, wish, be, look, bestow · **To what, where:** care, I, me, ignorance, endless kindness This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairies, me, my), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:12:30 # text = The fairies, who have taken care of me ever since I was born, wished me to be in ignorance as to my family, but they have looked after my education, and have bestowed on me endless kindness. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 5 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nmod _ _ 10 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 6 advmod _ _ 11 since since SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 16 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 ignorance ignorance NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 advcl _ _ 22 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 25 case _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 looked look VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 parataxis _ _ 31 after after ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 education education NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 bestowed bestow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 parataxis _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 40 endless endless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present · perfect | the fairies | care of me | | | ever | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 2 | **bear** | past · passive | | I | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **wish** | past | the fairies | me | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | | 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | the fairies *not said here* | | | ignorance | | as my family | tree rules | | 5 | **look** | present · perfect | fairies *= fairy* | | | | after my education | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **bestow** | present · perfect | | endless kindness | | | | on me | tree rules | | 7 | **care** | | me | | | | | | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent | | 8 | **educate** | | my | | | | | | nom education «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/12/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/12/31/) - ↑ back to [The Donkey Cabbage, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/12/)