The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 33

The very next morning the stepmother arrived at the palace with an ointment that the old witch had given her to place upon her daughter's tongue, which would break the dove's spell, if the rightful bride had really been drowned in the sea; if not, then it would be useless.

Who acts: stepmother, tongue, spell, dove · What happens: arrive, give, break, drown, be, spell · To what, where: palace, old witch, stepmother, spell, rightful bride, sea

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, tongue, spell, dove), 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	4 morning	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 next	advmod
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arrived	obl:unmarked
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stepmother	det
6	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arrived	nsubj
7	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arrived	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 ointment	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ointment	det
13	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 palace	nmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 given	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 witch	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 witch	amod
17	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 given	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 given	aux
19	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 arrived	advcl
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 given	iobj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 place	case
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 given	obl
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 tongue	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 daughter	nmod:poss
25	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tongue	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 daughter	case
27	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 given	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 break	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 break	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 break	aux
31	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 tongue	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 dove	det
33	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 spell	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 dove	case
35	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 break	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 drowned	punct
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 drowned	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bride	det
39	rightful	rightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 bride	amod
40	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 drowned	nsubj:pass
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 drowned	aux
42	really	really	ADV	_	44 drowned	advmod
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 drowned	aux:pass
44	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 break	parataxis
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 sea	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 sea	det
47	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 drowned	obl
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 useless	punct
49	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 not	mark
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 useless	advcl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 not	punct
52	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	56 useless	advmod
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 useless	nsubj
54	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 useless	aux
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 useless	cop
56	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 arrived	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	the stepmother			the palace with a ointment	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	past · perfect · passive		the old witch	stepmother			to place; upon stepmother's daughter's tongue	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme
3	break	would	stepmother's daughter's tongue	the dove's spell					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient
4	drown a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the rightful bride		the sea			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	is	would	spell				then	useless property	tree rules
6	spell		the dove						nom spell «state 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 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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