The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 79

'Well, then, take the lantern with you,' answered the witch, 'for supper I must have, and there is no water that is nearer.'

Who acts: you, I, water · What happens: take, answer, have, be · To what, where: lantern, witch

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 (you, I, water), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 take	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 take	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lantern	det
8	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 take	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 take	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 witch	det
15	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 supper	case
19	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obl
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 is	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 is	cc
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 is	expl
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 nearer	cop
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 water	det
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 nearer	nsubj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 nearer	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 nearer	cop
31	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 take	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	the lantern		then	with you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past			the witch			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent witch=Eventuality
3	have	must	I				for supper	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	no water				near 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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