The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 68

It belongs to an old witch, who no doubt came by it in some evil way.

Who acts: lantern, old witch · What happens: belong, come · To what, where: evil way

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lantern, old 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 belongs	nsubj
2	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 witch	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 witch	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 witch	amod
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 belongs	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 came	nsubj
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 doubt	det
10	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 witch	conj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 way	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 way	det
16	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 belongs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	present	lantern					to a old witch	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	a old witch			some evil way		by lantern	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by it=Location

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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