--- title: The maid wept all night long, and said, ‘I freed you in the wild woo… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The maid wept all night long, and said, ‘I freed you in the wild wood out of the iron stove; I have sought you, and have crossed a glassy mountain, three sharp swords, and a great lake before I found you, and will you not hear me now?’ Who acts: maid, 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 (maid, 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:pg640:8:81 # text = The maid wept all night long, and said, ‘I freed you in the wild wood out of the iron stove; I have sought you, and have crossed a glassy mountain, three sharp swords, and a great lake before I found you, and will you not hear me now?’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 freed free VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 out out ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 iron iron ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 stove stove NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 sought seek VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 crossed cross VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 glassy glassy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 38 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 swords sword NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 45 before before SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 46 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 48 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 51 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 52 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 53 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 54 advmod _ _ 54 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 55 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 54 obj _ _ 56 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 54 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weep** | past | the maid | | | | night | long *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **free** | past | I | you | | the wild wood | | out the iron stove | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer you=Source | | 4 | **seek** | present · perfect | I | you | | | | three sharp swords *obl*; a great lake *obl* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 5 | **cross** | present · perfect | I *not said here* | a glassy mountain | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient | | 6 | **find** | past | I | you | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | | 7 | **not** **hear** | future | you | me | | | now | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | 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 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/8/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/8/82/) - ↑ back to [The Iron Stove(7)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/8/)