Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 8

The wicked stepmother, however, was a witch, and had witnessed the departure of the two children: so, sneaking after them secretly, as is the habit of witches, she had enchanted all the springs in the forest.

Who acts: two children · What happens: be, witness, sneak, enchant, depart · To what, where: witch, departure, stepmother, forest

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two children), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stepmother	det
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stepmother	amod
3	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stepmother	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	9 witch	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 witch	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 witch	det
9	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stepmother	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 witnessed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 witnessed	cc
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 witnessed	aux
13	witnessed	witness	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 stepmother	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 departure	det
15	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 witnessed	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 children	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 children	det
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 children	nummod
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 departure	nmod
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 sneaking	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 sneaking	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sneaking	punct
23	sneaking	sneak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stepmother	conj
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sneaking	obl
26	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	23 sneaking	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 habit	punct
28	as	as	ADP	_	31 habit	case
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 habit	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 habit	det
31	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sneaking	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 witches	case
33	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 habit	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 enchanted	punct
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 enchanted	nsubj:pass
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 enchanted	aux
37	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 habit	conj
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 springs	det:predet
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 springs	det
40	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 enchanted	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 forest	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 forest	det
43	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 enchanted	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stepmother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a witch			however property	tree rules
2	witness	past · perfect		the departure of the two children				vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent departure=Beneficiary
3	sneak	gerund				after children = child	secretly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present					as the habit; of witches	tree rules
5	enchant	past · perfect · passive		stepmother	the forest	spring		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
6	depart		the two children					nom departure «act intransitive»: of=agent

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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