The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 11

'Well, leave it alone; there is nobody to hurt us,' said the witch, who was very sleepy; and the girl did as she was bid, and went to bed.

Who acts: you, nobody, witch, girl · What happens: leave, be, hurt, say, do, bid · To what, where: door, us, witch, girl, bed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, nobody, witch, girl), 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	_	4 leave	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 leave	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leave	obj
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 leave	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 is	expl
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	advcl
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 is	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hurt	mark
12	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 nobody	acl
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 hurt	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 nobody	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 witch	det
18	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sleepy	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 sleepy	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sleepy	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 sleepy	advmod
23	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 witch	parataxis
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 did	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 did	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 girl	det
27	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 did	nsubj
28	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	parataxis
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 bid	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bid	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 bid	aux:pass
32	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 did	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 went	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 went	cc
35	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 did	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 bed	case
37	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 went	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 leave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	door		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	be	present	nobody		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hurt	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	us			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	nobody not said here	the witch			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent witch=Topic
5	is	past	the witch			sleepy property	tree rules
6	do	past	the girl				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	bid	past · passive		girl			tree rules
8	go	past	the girl not said here		bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_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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