More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 22

So the old witch went after her and caught her, she took all the money away from her, beat her, and sent her off home just as she was.

Who acts: old witch, tree · What happens: go, catch, take, beat, send off, be · To what, where: tree, money

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, tree), 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	_	5 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 witch	amod
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 caught	cc
9	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 caught	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 money	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 money	det
16	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
17	away	away	ADV	_	13 took	advmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 beat	punct
21	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 beat	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sent	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sent	cc
25	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sent	obj
27	off	off	ADP	_	25 sent	compound:prt
28	home	home	ADV	_	25 sent	advmod
29	just	just	ADV	_	32 was	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 was	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 was	nsubj
32	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sent	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the old witch		after tree		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	past	the old witch not said here	tree			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	take	past	tree	all money		from witch; away property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent money=Theme from she=Initial_Location
4	beat	past	tree not said here	tree			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme
5	send off	past	tree not said here	tree		home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	be	past	tree				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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