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title: But the kitchen-maid wept the whole night long, and said, ‘I have fr… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the kitchen-maid wept the whole night long, and said, ‘I have freed you in a wood and from an iron stove; I sought you and have crossed a glassy mountain, three sharp swords, and a great lake to find you, and now you will not hear me!’ Who acts: kitchen maid, I, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fa
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 87

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But the kitchen-maid wept the whole night long, and said, ‘I have freed you in a wood and from an iron stove; I sought you and have crossed a glassy mountain, three sharp swords, and a great lake to find you, and now you will not hear me!’

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**Who acts:** kitchen maid, I, you · **What happens:** weep, say, free, seek, cross, find · **To what, where:** you, wood, glassy mountain, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kitchen maid, I, you), 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:pg640:8:87
# text = But the kitchen-maid wept the whole night long, and said, ‘I have freed you in a wood and from an iron stove; I sought you and have crossed a glassy mountain, three sharp swords, and a great lake to find you, and now you will not hear me!’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	freed	free	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	crossed	cross	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	conj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	glassy	glassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
40	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	acl	_	_
49	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
52	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	56	advmod	_	_
53	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
54	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	56	advmod	_	_
56	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
57	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | the kitchen maid |  |  |  | night | long *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the kitchen maid *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **free** | present · perfect | I | you |  | a wood and a iron stove |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer you=Source |
| 4 | **seek** | past | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 5 | **cross** | present · perfect | I *not said here* | a glassy mountain and three sharp swords |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient |
| 6 | **find** | to-infinitive | the kitchen maid *not said here* | 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 |

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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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