The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 63

The witch was enchanted at this sight, and eagerly helped her brother to set down and open the chest, which was full of the ghastly food she had been longing for.

Who acts: chest, Signy · What happens: enchant, help, set down, open, be, long · To what, where: witch, sight, Signy, chest, ghastly food

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chest, Signy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enchanted	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 enchanted	aux:pass
4	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 sight	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 sight	det
7	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enchanted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 helped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 helped	cc
10	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	11 helped	advmod
11	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 enchanted	parataxis
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 helped	obj
13	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 helped	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 set	mark
15	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 helped	advcl
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 set	compound:prt
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 open	cc
18	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 set	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 chest	det
20	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 open	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 full	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 full	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 full	cop
24	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 chest	acl:relcl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 food	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 food	det
27	ghastly	ghastly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 food	amod
28	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 full	obl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 longing	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 longing	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 longing	aux
32	longing	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 food	acl:relcl
33	for	for	ADP	_	32 longing	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 enchanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enchant	past · passive		the witch	this sight		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	help	past		Signy		eagerly property	tree rules
3	set down	to-infinitive					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	open	infinitive		the chest			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=Theme
5	is	past	the chest			of the ghastly food; full property	tree rules
6	long	past · perfect · progressive	Signy	the ghastly food not said here			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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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