The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 113

And the wives answered boldly that now they had found their husbands they meant to save them from such a wicked witch.

Who acts: wives, sisters · What happens: answer, find, mean, save · To what, where: husbands, sisters

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wives, sisters), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wives	det
3	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	advcl
5	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 answered	advmod
6	that	that	ADV	_	10 found	advmod
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 found	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	aux
10	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 husbands	nmod:poss
12	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 found	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 meant	nsubj
14	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 save	mark
16	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 meant	xcomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 save	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	22 witch	case
19	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 witch	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 witch	det
21	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 witch	amod
22	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 save	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the wives			boldly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	past · perfect	sisters = sister	sisters's husbands	now	that property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Topic
3	mean	past	sisters = sister				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	save not said to happen	to-infinitive	sisters = sister not said here	sisters = sister		from such wicked witch	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from witch=Source

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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