The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 18

The witch, who was looking on, saw that as long as the youth had possession of the sword, all her schemes would be in vain, and tried to steal the sword in the night, but it only jumped out of its scabbard and sliced off her nose, which was of iron.

Who acts: witch, youth, schemes, possession, nose, sword · What happens: look on, see, have, be, try, steal · To what, where: that, possession, sword, scabbard

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, youth, schemes, possession), 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	9 saw	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 looking	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 looking	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looking	aux
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 witch	acl:relcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 looking	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 witch	punct
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 saw	obj
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 long	advmod
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 saw	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 youth	det
15	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	advcl
17	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 sword	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sword	det
20	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 possession	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 vain	punct
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 schemes	det:predet
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 schemes	nmod:poss
24	schemes	scheme	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 vain	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 vain	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 vain	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 vain	case
28	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 had	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tried	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 tried	cc
31	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 steal	mark
33	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 tried	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sword	det
35	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 steal	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 night	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 night	det
38	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 steal	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 jumped	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 jumped	cc
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 jumped	nsubj
42	only	only	ADV	_	43 jumped	advmod
43	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	parataxis
44	out	out	ADP	_	47 scabbard	case
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 scabbard	case
46	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 scabbard	nmod:poss
47	scabbard	scabbard	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 jumped	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 sliced	cc
49	sliced	slice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 jumped	conj
50	off	off	ADP	_	52 nose	case
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 nose	nmod:poss
52	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 sliced	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 iron	punct
54	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 iron	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 iron	cop
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 iron	case
57	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 nose	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look on	past · progressive	the witch				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past	the witch	that		long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3	have	past	the youth	possession of the sword			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Patient
4	is	would	sword's schemes			vain property	tree rules
5	try	past	the witch not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	steal not said to happen	to-infinitive	the witch not said here	the sword	night		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sword=Theme
7	jump out	past	possession	possession's scabbard			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme scabbard=Trajectory
8	slice	past	possession not said here			off sword's nose and iron	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
9	is	past	sword's nose and iron			of iron	tree rules
10	possess			the sword			nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient
11	scheme		sword				nom scheme «cognition 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: «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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