More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 102

"Apple-tree, apple-tree hide me, So the old witch can't find me; If she does she'll pick my bones, And bury me under the marble stones."

Who acts: Apple tree, old witch, Witch · What happens: hide, not find, pick, bury · To what, where: Witch, bones, marble stones

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Apple tree, old witch, Witch), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tree	punct
2	Apple	Apple	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Apple	punct
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hide	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tree	punct
6	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 apple	punct
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	conj
9	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 hide	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 find	punct
12	So	so	ADV	_	18 find	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 witch	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 witch	amod
15	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	nsubj
16	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 find	advmod
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hide	advcl
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 find	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 pick	punct
21	If	if	SCONJ	_	23 does	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 does	nsubj
23	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 pick	aux
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pick	nsubj
25	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 pick	aux
26	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hide	parataxis
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 bones	nmod:poss
28	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pick	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bury	punct
30	And	and	CCONJ	_	31 bury	cc
31	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 hide	parataxis
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 bury	obj
33	under	under	ADP	_	36 stones	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 stones	det
35	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stones	compound
36	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 bury	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 hide	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 hide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hide in a quote	present	Apple tree and apple tree	Witch		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	not find in a quote	can	the old witch	Witch		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic
3	pick in a quote	present · do-support	Witch	my bones		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
4	bury in a quote	infinitive		Witch	the marble stones	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme under stone=Destination

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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