--- title: As Thumbelina pleased her, she said: ‘As far as I am concerned you m… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As Thumbelina pleased her, she said: ‘As far as I am concerned you may spend the winter with me; but you must keep my room clean and tidy, and tell me stories, for I like that very much.’ Who acts: creature, 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 (creature, 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:pg640:47:139 # text = As Thumbelina pleased her, she said: ‘As far as I am concerned you may spend the winter with me; but you must keep my room clean and tidy, and tell me stories, for I like that very much.’ 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 Thumbelina Thumbelina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 9 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 As as ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 concerned concerned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 advcl _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 28 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 tidy tidy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 36 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 iobj _ _ 37 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 for for SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 parataxis _ _ 42 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 41 obj _ _ 43 very very ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 much much ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | creature | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | I | | | | | concerned *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **spend** | may | you | | | | winter | with me; far *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **keep** | must | you | my room | | | | clean *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | stories | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=Topic | | 6 | **like** | present | I | that | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | 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 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/138/) - next →: [sentence 140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/140/) - ↑ back to [The Witch in the Stone Boat(31)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/)