The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 88
One day the old witch happened to want a little boy, so she threw her ball in the direction of the hunters’ huts.
Who acts: old witch, witch · What happens: happen, want, throw · To what, where: little boy, ball, direction
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old witch, witch), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 witch | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 witch | amod |
| 5 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 want | mark |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 happened | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boy | amod |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 want | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 threw | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 threw | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 threw | nsubj |
| 15 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happened | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 ball | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 threw | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 direction | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 direction | det |
| 20 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 threw | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 huts | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hunters | det |
| 23 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 huts | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 23 hunters | case |
| 25 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 direction | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the old witch | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | to-infinitive | the old witch not said here | a little boy | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot boy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | witch | witch's ball | the direction of the hunters's huts | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ball=Theme in direction=Destination |
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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