More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 17

"Apple-tree, apple-tree, 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: Apple tree, old witch, witch · What happens: hide, not find, break, bury · To what, where: girl, bones, marble stones

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Apple tree, 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	_	10 hide	punct
2	Apple	Apple	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Apple	punct
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hide	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tree	punct
6	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 apple	punct
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hide	punct
10	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 hide	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 find	punct
13	So	so	ADV	_	19 find	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 witch	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 witch	amod
16	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	nsubj
17	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 find	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 find	advmod
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hide	advcl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 find	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 break	punct
22	If	if	SCONJ	_	24 does	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 does	nsubj
24	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 break	aux
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 break	nsubj
26	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 break	aux
27	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hide	conj
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 bones	nmod:poss
29	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 break	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bury	punct
31	And	and	CCONJ	_	32 bury	cc
32	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hide	conj
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 bury	obj
34	under	under	ADP	_	37 stones	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 stones	det
36	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stones	compound
37	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 bury	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 hide	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 hide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hide in a quote	infinitive	Apple tree and apple tree	girl		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	not find in a quote	can	the old witch	girl		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	Apple tree and apple tree not said here	girl	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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