The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 100

I will go back to the witch and see if she cannot take off the spell laid on you by those horrible birds.

Who acts: I, witch · What happens: go back, see, not take off, lay · To what, where: spell

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, witch), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 witch	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 witch	det
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 see	cc
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 take	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 take	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 take	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 take	advmod
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 see	ccomp
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 take	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spell	det
17	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
18	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 spell	acl
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 laid	obl
21	by	by	ADP	_	24 birds	case
22	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 birds	det
23	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 birds	amod
24	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 laid	obl:agent
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go back	future	I		to the witch result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to witch=Result
2	see	infinitive	I not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not take off a condition, not said to happen	can	witch	the spell		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme
4	lay	participle		the spell not said here	on you	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on you=Destination

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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