The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 48

“Get away, old witch!” they cried, “you will bring us bad luck”; but the old woman stood firm, and declared that she alone knew where to find the maiden.

Who acts: heralds, you, old woman, woman · What happens: get away, cry, bring, stand, declare, know · To what, where: old witch, bad luck, us, maiden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (heralds, you, old woman, woman), 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	_	2 Get	punct
2	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	parataxis
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 Get	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 witch	punct
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 witch	amod
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Get	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bring	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 bring	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 bring	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 bring	aux
15	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	ccomp
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 bring	obj
17	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 luck	amod
18	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bring	obj
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 bring	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 stood	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 stood	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 woman	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 woman	amod
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stood	nsubj
25	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
26	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stood	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 declared	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 declared	cc
29	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stood	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 knew	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 knew	nsubj
32	alone	alone	ADV	_	33 knew	advmod
33	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 declared	advcl
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 find	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 find	mark
36	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 knew	xcomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 maiden	det
38	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 find	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get away in a quote	infinitive		old witch		away property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	heralds = herald				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bring in a quote	future	you	bad luck	us		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination luck=Theme
4	stand	past	the old woman			firm property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	declare speech: other	past	the old woman not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	know	past	woman			alone property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	find	to-infinitive	woman not said here	the maiden			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Topic

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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