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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 104

The witch came panting up, furious at having lost the race which she felt certain of winning; and Ball-Carrier, who had by this time changed back into his own shape, struck her on the head and killed her.

Who acts: witch, race, Ball · What happens: come, pant up, lose, feel, win, have · To what, where: race, own shape, witch

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, race, Ball), 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

detnsubjxcompcompound:prtpunctparataxismarkauxadvcldetobjnsubjnsubjacl:relclxcompmarkadvclpunctccnsubjpunctconjpunctnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblparataxisadvmodcasenmod:possamodoblpunctparataxisobjcasedetoblccconjobjpunctrootTheDETwitchNOUNcameVERBpantingVERBupADP,PUNCTfuriousADJatSCONJhavingAUXlostVERBtheDETraceNOUNwhichPRONshePRONfeltVERBcertainADJofSCONJwinningVERB;PUNCTandCCONJBallPROPN-PUNCTCarrierPROPN,PUNCTwhoPRONhadVERBbyADPthisDETtimeNOUNchangedVERBbackADVintoADPhisPRONownADJshapeNOUN,PUNCTstruckVERBherPRONonADPtheDETheadNOUNandCCONJkilledVERBherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 witchdet
2witchwitchNOUNNumber=Sing3 camensubj
3camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4pantingpantVERBVerbForm=Ger3 camexcomp
5upupADP_4 pantingcompound:prt
6,,PUNCT_7 furiouspunct
7furiousfuriousADJDegree=Pos3 cameparataxis
8atatSCONJ_10 lostmark
9havinghaveAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 lostaux
10lostloseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part7 furiousadvcl
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 racedet
12raceraceNOUNNumber=Sing10 lostobj
13whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel15 feltnsubj
14sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 feltnsubj
15feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 raceacl:relcl
16certaincertainADJDegree=Pos15 feltxcomp
17ofofSCONJ_18 winningmark
18winningwinVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part16 certainadvcl
19;;PUNCT_30 changedpunct
20andandCCONJ_30 changedcc
21BallBallPROPNNumber=Sing30 changednsubj
22--PUNCT_23 Carrierpunct
23CarrierCarrierPROPNNumber=Sing21 Ballconj
24,,PUNCT_26 hadpunct
25whowhoPRONPronType=Rel26 hadnsubj
26hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 Ballacl:relcl
27bybyADP_29 timecase
28thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem29 timedet
29timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing26 hadobl
30changedchangeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 cameparataxis
31backbackADV_30 changedadvmod
32intointoADP_35 shapecase
33hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 shapenmod:poss
34ownownADJDegree=Pos35 shapeamod
35shapeshapeNOUNNumber=Sing30 changedobl
36,,PUNCT_37 struckpunct
37struckstrikeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 cameparataxis
38hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs37 struckobj
39ononADP_41 headcase
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 headdet
41headheadNOUNNumber=Sing37 struckobl
42andandCCONJ_43 killedcc
43killedkillVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin37 struckconj
44hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs43 killedobj
45..PUNCT_3 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastthe witchtree rules
2pant upgerundthe witch not said herevn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3losegerund · perfectthe witch not said herethe racevn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality
4feelpastthe racecertain propertyvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5wingerundthe race not said herevn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6havepastBall and Carriertimevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7change backpastBall and Carrierinto Carrier's own shape resultvn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into shape=Result
8strikepastwitchon the headvn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument on head=Patient
9killpastwitchvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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