--- title: She made the youth rise, embraced him, and said, ‘Know, my son, that… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She made the youth rise, embraced him, and said, ‘Know, my son, that it is I who sent the nun to your mother and caused you to be born, and with you the horse, with whose help you will be able to free the world from the monster. Who acts: Abbess, rise, I, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abbess, rise, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:13:8 # text = She made the youth rise, embraced him, and said, ‘Know, my son, that it is I who sent the nun to your mother and caused you to be born, and with you the horse, with whose help you will be able to free the world from the monster. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 rise rise NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 embraced embrace VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 nun nun NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 iobj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nmod _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 46 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 47 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 48 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 49 cop _ _ 49 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 50 to to PART TO _ 51 mark _ _ 51 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 conj _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 54 from from ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 monster monster NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Abbess | the youth rise | | | | the horse with you *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rise=Product | | 2 | **embrace** | past | Abbess *not said here* | son | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **know** | infinitive | | | | | | my son *vocative* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is a** | present | rise | I | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **send** | past | I | the nun | your mother | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nun=Theme to mother=Destination | | 7 | **cause** | past | I *not said here* | | you | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition you=Patient | | 8 | **bear** | to-infinitive · passive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | | 9 | **is** | future | you | | | | | with help; able *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **be** | | the world from the monster | | | | | | tree rules | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/13/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/13/9/) - ↑ back to [The Donkey Cabbage, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/13/)