More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 96

So the girl promised to do as she was told, but one morning as she was cleaning, and the witch was out, she forgot what the witch said, and looked up the chimney.

Who acts: girl, thing, witch · What happens: promise, do, tell, clean, be, forget · To what, where: thing, chimney · 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 (girl, thing, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 promised	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	xcomp
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 told	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	aux:pass
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 do	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cleaning	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 cleaning	cc
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 morning	nummod
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cleaning	obl:unmarked
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 cleaning	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cleaning	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 cleaning	aux
18	cleaning	clean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 promised	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 out	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 out	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 witch	det
22	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 out	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 out	cop
24	out	out	ADV	_	27 forgot	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 forgot	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 forgot	nsubj
27	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	advcl
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 said	obj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 witch	det
30	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	nsubj
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 forgot	ccomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 looked	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 looked	cc
34	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	conj
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 looked	compound:prt
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 chimney	det
37	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 looked	obl:unmarked
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	the girl				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the girl not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past · passive		thing			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	clean	past · progressive	thing		morning		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is	past	the witch			out property	tree rules
6	forget	past	Witch				tree rules
7	say speech: assert	past	the witch				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
8	look up	past	the girl not said here	the chimney			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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