The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 67

I am a witch, and if I had chosen I could easily have cast my spells over the Bad One, and have made him deliver them to you the first day you came into my hut.

Who acts: I, bridge, you, my · What happens: be, choose, cast, make, deliver, come · To what, where: witch, spells, bridge, you, first day, hut

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 (I, bridge, you, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 witch	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 witch	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cast	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cast	cc
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 chosen	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 chosen	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 chosen	aux
10	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 cast	advcl
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 cast	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 cast	aux
13	easily	easily	ADV	_	15 cast	advmod
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 cast	aux
15	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 witch	acl:relcl
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 spells	nmod:poss
17	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cast	obj
18	over	over	ADP	_	21 One	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 One	det
20	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 One	amod
21	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cast	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 made	cc
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 made	aux
25	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 witch	parataxis
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 made	obj
27	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 made	xcomp
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 deliver	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 deliver	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 day	det
32	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	33 day	amod
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 deliver	obl:unmarked
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 day	acl:relcl
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 hut	case
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 hut	nmod:poss
38	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 witch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	a witch					tree rules
2	choose a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	cast	could · perfect	I	my spells				over the Bad One; easily property	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spell=Theme over one=Destination
4	make	present · perfect		bridge					tree rules
5	deliver	infinitive	bridge not said here	spells = spell	you		day		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to you=Destination
6	come	past	you	the first day not said here		my hut			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location day=Theme
7	spell		my						nom spell «state transitive»: poss=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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