More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 2
The old witch went to look, and the oven said, "Get in and look in the furthest corner."
Who acts: old witch, oven · What happens: go, look, say, get in · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old witch, oven), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 witch | amod |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 oven | det |
| 10 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Get | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Get | punct |
| 14 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 Get | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 look | cc |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Get | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 corner | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 corner | det |
| 20 | furthest | furth | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 corner | amod |
| 21 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 look | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the old witch | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | the old witch not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the oven | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get in in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | look in a quote | infinitive | in the furthest corner | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in corner=Theme |
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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