The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 34

The mother assured her that she had seen her stepdaughter sink, and that there was no fear that she would ever come up again; but, to make all quite safe, the old woman might bewitch the girl; and so she did.

Who acts: mother, bride, old woman · What happens: assure, see, be, come up, make, bewitch · To what, where: bride, stepdaughter sink, fear, girl

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 (mother, bride, old woman), 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	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 assured	nsubj
3	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 assured	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 seen	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seen	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	aux
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 assured	ccomp
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sink	nmod:poss
10	stepdaughter	stepdaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sink	compound
11	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seen	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fear	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fear	cc
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 was	mark
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 was	expl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fear	cop
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 fear	det
18	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 assured	obl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 come	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 come	advmod
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 fear	acl
24	up	up	ADV	_	23 come	advmod
25	again	again	ADV	_	23 come	advmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 make	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 make	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 make	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 make	mark
30	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 assured	parataxis
31	all	all	ADV	_	32 quite	advmod
32	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 make	advmod
33	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 make	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 bewitch	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 woman	det
36	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 woman	amod
37	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bewitch	nsubj
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 bewitch	aux
39	bewitch	bewitch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 make	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 girl	det
41	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bewitch	obj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 did	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 did	cc
44	so	so	ADV	_	46 did	advmod
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 did	nsubj
46	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 assured	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 assured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	assure	past	the mother		bride			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	see	past · perfect	bride	bride's stepdaughter sink				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sink=Stimulus
3	is a	past		no fear				tree rules
4	come up	would	bride	no fear not said here		ever; again		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fear=Theme
5	make	to-infinitive					safe property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	bewitch	might	the old woman	the girl				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus girl=Experiencer
7	do	past	bride					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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