--- title: She stood there with blushing cheeks and eye on ground, and said: “O… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She stood there with blushing cheeks and eye on ground, and said: “O welcome, father dear, to your halls and bowers, and welcome to you my new mother, for all that's here is yours,” and again she offered the keys. Who acts: queen, that. 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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 (queen, that), 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:pg7439:39:8 # text = She stood there with blushing cheeks and eye on ground, and said: “O welcome, father dear, to your halls and bowers, and welcome to you my new mother, for all that's here is yours,” and again she offered the keys. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 blushing blushing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 cheeks cheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ 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 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 15 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 O o INTJ UH _ 17 discourse _ _ 17 welcome welcome INTJ UH _ 20 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 halls hall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 bowers bower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 welcome welcome NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 36 for for SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 37 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 42 det:predet _ _ 38 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 42 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 40 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 42 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 46 again again ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 47 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 keys key NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | queen | welcome | you | there | | with blushing cheeks on ground and eye | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | queen *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | yours | | here | | | tree rules | | 4 | **offer** | past | queen | the keys | | | again | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent key=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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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/pg7439/39/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/39/9/) - ↑ back to [The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/39/)