More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 86
"We'll poison her--poison her!" shrieked the witches.
Who acts: We · What happens: poison, shriek · To what, where: Jack, witches · 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 (We), 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 | _ | 4 poison | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 poison | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 poison | aux |
| 4 | poison | poison | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 shrieked | ccomp |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 poison | obj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 poison | punct |
| 7 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 poison | obj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 poison | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 poison | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 poison | punct |
| 11 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 witches | det |
| 13 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shrieked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 shrieked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poison in a quote | future | We | Jack | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shriek | past | the witches | tree rules |
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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