The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 87

In the town where she had lived before she was married there was an old witch, who had more skill in magic that any other witch she knew.

Who acts: mother, old witch, other witch · What happens: live, marry, be, have, know · To what, where: mother, old witch, town, more skill, magic

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 (mother, old witch, other 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

Pragmatics

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.

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