The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 57

Then the witch did something that nobody in the world could have guessed that she would do.

Who acts: witch, nobody, grandmother · What happens: do, guess · To what, where: something

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, nobody, grandmother), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 did	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 did	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 guessed	obj
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 guessed	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nobody	nmod
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 guessed	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 guessed	aux
13	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 something	acl:relcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 do	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 guessed	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	past	the witch	something	then	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
2	guess	could · perfect	nobody			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
3	do	would	grandmother			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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