The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 95

'These men are under spells,' said the witch, 'and alive they can never be till you have anointed them with the water which you must fetch from the island of Big Women.

Who acts: men, spells, water · What happens: be, say, not anoint, fetch · To what, where: spells, witch, alive, island · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, spells, 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 spells	punct
2	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 men	det
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spells	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 spells	cop
5	under	under	ADP	_	6 spells	case
6	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spells	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 spells	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 witch	det
11	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 anointed	cc
15	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 anointed	nsubj:pass
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 anointed	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 anointed	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 anointed	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 anointed	aux:pass
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	23 anointed	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 anointed	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 anointed	aux
23	anointed	anoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 anointed	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 water	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 anointed	obl
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 fetch	nsubj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 fetch	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 fetch	aux
31	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 water	acl:relcl
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 island	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 island	det
34	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fetch	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 Women	case
36	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Women	amod
37	Women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 island	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	this men		spells		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	spells	the witch			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent witch=Topic
3	not anoint	can · perfect · passive		alive		with the water	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme they=Result
4	fetch	must	the water		the island of Big Women		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from island=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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