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title: The next morning the maiden asked him whether he would not like to s… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The next morning the maiden asked him whether he would not like to stay with her always in this beautiful place, and as he did not answer immediately, she continued: ‘You see how I always remain young and beautiful, and I am under no one’s orders, but can do just what I like, so that I have never th
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 82

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The next morning the maiden asked him whether he would not like to stay with her always in this beautiful place, and as he did not answer immediately, she continued: ‘You see how I always remain young and beautiful, and I am under no one’s orders, but can do just what I like, so that I have never thought of marrying before.

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**Who acts:** maiden, foot, You, I · **What happens:** ask, not like, stay, not answer, continue, see · **To what, where:** foot, orders · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, foot, You, I), 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:pg640:5:82
# text = The next morning the maiden asked him whether he would not like to stay with her always in this beautiful place, and as he did not answer immediately, she continued: ‘You see how I always remain young and beautiful, and I am under no one’s orders, but can do just what I like, so that I have never thought of marrying before.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
17	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
29	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	_
37	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	40	advmod	_	_
40	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	ccomp	_	_
41	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
47	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
48	under	under	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	50	det	_	_
50	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	’s	's	PART	POS	_	50	case	_	_
52	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
57	just	just	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	56	obj	_	_
59	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
60	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
62	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	67	mark	_	_
63	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	62	fixed	_	_
64	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	67	nsubj	_	_
65	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	67	aux	_	_
66	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	67	advmod	_	_
67	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	56	advcl	_	_
68	of	of	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
69	marrying	marrying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obl	_	_
70	before	before	ADV	RB	_	67	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the maiden |  | foot |  | morning |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **like** | would | foot |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | foot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with maiden's beautiful place | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with place=Location |
| 4 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | foot |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **continue** | past | maiden |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **see** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **remain** | present | I |  |  |  |  | always, young *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | present | I |  |  | no one's orders |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **do** | can | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 10 | **like** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 11 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | of marrying; before *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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.

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