More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 3

Some said she was a witch, but they said it in a whisper, lest she should overhear and do them a mischief, and truly it was not a thing one could be sure of, for she was never known to hurt any one, which, if she were a witch, she would have been sure to do.

Who acts: Some, woman, parts, Clay, thing one, one · What happens: say, be, overhear, do, not be, not know · To what, where: witch, Clay, whisper, parts, thing one, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, woman, parts, Clay), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 witch	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 witch	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 whisper	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 whisper	det
14	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 overhear	punct
16	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	19 overhear	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 overhear	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 overhear	aux
19	overhear	overhear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 do	cc
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 overhear	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 do	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 mischief	det
24	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 do	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sure	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sure	cc
27	truly	truly	ADV	_	33 one	advmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 one	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 one	cop
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 one	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 one	det
32	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 one	compound
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sure	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 sure	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 sure	cop
36	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	parataxis
37	of	of	ADP	_	36 sure	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 known	punct
39	for	for	SCONJ	_	43 known	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 known	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 known	aux:pass
42	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	43 known	advmod
43	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 hurt	mark
45	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 known	xcomp
46	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	47 one	det
47	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 hurt	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 sure	punct
49	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	61 sure	nsubj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 which	punct
51	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 witch	mark
52	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 witch	nsubj
53	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 witch	cop
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 witch	det
55	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 sure	advcl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 witch	punct
57	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 sure	nsubj
58	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 sure	aux
59	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	61 sure	aux
60	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	61 sure	cop
61	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 one	conj
62	to	to	PART	_	63 do	mark
63	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 sure	xcomp
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Some				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	woman	a witch			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	parts = part	Clay	a whisper		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent it=Theme in whisper=Manner
4	overhear	should	woman				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
5	do	infinitive	woman not said here	parts = part			tree rules
6	not is a	past	Clay	a thing one		truly property	tree rules
7	is	could	a thing one			sure property	tree rules
8	not know	past · passive		woman			tree rules
9	hurt	to-infinitive		any one			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient
10	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	woman	a witch			tree rules
11	is	would · perfect	any one			sure property	tree rules
12	do	to-infinitive	any one not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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