More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 114

When the witch had gone off another way, the little girl went on again, and when she was near the oven she heard the witch coming after her again, so she ran to the oven and cried:

Who acts: witch, little girl · What happens: go off, go on, be, hear, come, run · To what, where: way, oven, witch

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 (witch, little girl), 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 gone	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 gone	compound:prt
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 girl	amod
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	conj
14	on	on	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	again	again	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 oven	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 oven	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 oven	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 oven	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 oven	cop
21	near	near	ADP	_	23 oven	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 oven	det
23	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 heard	nsubj
25	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 oven	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 witch	det
27	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heard	obj
28	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 witch	acl
29	after	after	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 coming	obl
31	again	again	ADV	_	28 coming	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ran	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	35 ran	advmod
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 ran	nsubj
35	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 heard	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 oven	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 oven	det
38	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ran	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 cried	cc
40	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 heard	conj
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past · perfect	the witch	another way				vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	go on	past	the little girl			again		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	Witch		the oven			tree rules
4	hear	past	Witch	the witch				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer witch=Stimulus
5	come	gerund	the witch not said here			after Witch; again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	run	past	Witch				to the oven result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to oven=Result
7	cry speech: express	past	Witch not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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