More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 82

"Drat thee!" yelled the witch-bodies, "thou 'st spoiled our spells this year agone!"

Who acts: witch bodies, thou, our · What happens: yell, spoil, spell · To what, where: thee, spells · 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 (witch bodies, thou, our), 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	_	6 yelled	punct
2	Drat	drat	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thee	reparandum
3	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 yelled	obl
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 thee	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 thee	punct
6	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bodies	det
8	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bodies	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 witch	punct
10	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 yelled	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spoiled	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 spoiled	punct
13	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 spoiled	nsubj
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 thou	punct
15	st	St	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 spoiled	nsubj
16	spoiled	spoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 yelled	conj
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 spells	nmod:poss
18	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 spoiled	obj
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 agone	det
20	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 agone	compound
21	agone	agone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spoiled	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 yelled	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 yelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past	the witch bodies	thee	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spoil in a quote	past	thou	our spells	tree rules
3	spell in a quote		our		nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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