More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 3
The witch did so, and when she was inside the oven shut her door, and the witch was kept there for a very long time.
Who acts: witch, oven · What happens: do, be, shut, keep · To what, where: oven, door, witch
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 (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 | 2 witch | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shut | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shut | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 oven | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 oven | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 oven | cop |
| 10 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 12 oven | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 oven | det |
| 12 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shut | nsubj |
| 13 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 door | nmod:poss |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shut | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 kept | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kept | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 witch | det |
| 19 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 kept | aux:pass |
| 21 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | conj |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 kept | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 time | det |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 long | advmod |
| 26 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 time | amod |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kept | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the witch | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | witch | the oven | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shut | past | the oven | oven's door | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 4 | keep | past · passive | the witch | there | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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