More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 115

"Oven, oven, hide me, So the old witch can't find me; If she does she'll break my bones, And bury me under the marble stones."

Who acts: oven, old witch, Witch · What happens: hide, not find, break, 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 (oven, 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	_	6 hide	punct
2	Oven	oven	INTJ	_	6 hide	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 oven	punct
4	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hide	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 oven	punct
6	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 hide	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 find	punct
9	So	so	ADV	_	15 find	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 witch	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 witch	amod
12	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	nsubj
13	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 find	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 find	advmod
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hide	advcl
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 find	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 break	punct
18	If	if	SCONJ	_	20 does	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 does	nsubj
20	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 break	aux
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 break	nsubj
22	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 break	aux
23	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hide	conj
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 bones	nmod:poss
25	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 break	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bury	punct
27	And	and	CCONJ	_	28 bury	cc
28	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hide	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 bury	obj
30	under	under	ADP	_	33 stones	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stones	det
32	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stones	compound
33	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bury	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hide	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hide in a quote	infinitive	oven	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	break in a quote	present · do-support	Witch	my bones		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient
4	bury in a quote	infinitive	oven not said here	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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