The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 88

To this witch she would go and beg her to make her a mask with the face of her stepdaughter, and when she had the mask the rest would be easy.

Who acts: witch, rest · What happens: go, beg, make, have, be · To what, where: witch, mask

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 (witch, rest), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 witch	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 beg	cc
8	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 beg	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 beg	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 make	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mask	det
14	mask	mask	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 face	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 face	det
17	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 stepdaughter	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 stepdaughter	nmod:poss
20	stepdaughter	stepdaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 face	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 had	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mask	det
27	mask	mask	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rest	det
29	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 easy	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 easy	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 easy	cop
32	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 had	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	would	witch			to this witch	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to witch=Initial_Location
2	beg speech: request	infinitive	witch not said here		witch		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	make	to-infinitive	witch not said here	a mask	witch	with the face of witch's stepdaughter	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary mask=Product
4	have	past	witch	the mask			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mask=Patient
5	is	would	the rest			easy 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 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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