More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 91
Now in this house there lived a witch, and this witch took girls into her house as servants.
Who acts: witch · What happens: live, take · To what, where: witch, house, girls
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), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 house | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 house | det |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 witch | det |
| 8 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 witch | det |
| 12 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 14 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 servants | case |
| 19 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 took | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a witch | this house; there | now | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme witch=Location | |||
| 2 | take | past | this witch | girls | Witch's house | as servants | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme into house=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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