The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 6

The old witch was standing in the window and pretended not to see them; but all witches have eyes in the backs of their heads, and she knew at once that not one sleeve but three were cut, and they were all as alike as before.

Who acts: old witch, witches, witch, three · What happens: stand, pretend, not see, have, know, cut · To what, where: window, three, eyes, backs

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 (old witch, witches, witch, three), 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	3 witch	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 witch	amod
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 standing	aux
5	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pretended	cc
10	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 standing	conj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 see	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 pretended	xcomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 have	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 witches	det
18	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 standing	parataxis
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 have	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 backs	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 backs	det
23	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 have	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 heads	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 heads	nmod:poss
26	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 backs	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 knew	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 knew	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 knew	nsubj
30	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 have	parataxis
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 once	case
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 knew	obl
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 sleeve	mark
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 one	advmod
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 sleeve	nummod
36	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 knew	ccomp
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 cut	cc
38	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 cut	nsubj:pass
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 cut	aux:pass
40	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 sleeve	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 alike	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 alike	cc
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 alike	nsubj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 alike	cop
45	all	all	ADV	_	47 alike	advmod
46	as	as	ADV	_	47 alike	advmod
47	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 knew	conj
48	as	as	ADP	_	49 before	case
49	before	before	ADV	_	47 alike	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	the old witch		the window		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in window=Location
2	pretend	past	the old witch not said here				tree rules
3	not see	to-infinitive	the old witch not said here	three			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	have	present	all witches	eyes	the backs of three's heads		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
5	know	past	witch				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	cut	past · passive		three			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
7	is	past	three			alike, all property	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: «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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