More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 111
When the old witch came up, she looked about and said to the cow:
Who acts: old witch, Witch · What happens: come up, look, say · To what, where: cow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 witch | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 witch | amod |
| 4 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 looked | advcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 looked | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 looked | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 cow | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cow | det |
| 15 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the old witch | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | past | Witch | about property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Witch not said here | the cow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to cow=Recipient |
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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