The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 41

The skin that was my guard you have burned it, and the egg-wife that gave you the counsel was the witch herself.

Who acts: skin, guard, egg wife · What happens: be, burn, give · To what, where: guard, you, counsel, witch

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skin, guard, egg wife), 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 skin	det
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 guard	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 guard	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 guard	cop
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 guard	nmod:poss
6	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 burned	nsubj:pass
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 burned	aux
9	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 guard	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 burned	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 witch	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 witch	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wife	det
14	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wife	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 egg	punct
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 witch	nsubj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 gave	nsubj
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wife	acl:relcl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 gave	iobj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 counsel	det
21	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gave	obj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 witch	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 witch	det
24	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 guard	conj
25	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 witch	nmod:unmarked
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 guard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the skin	my guard and the witch			tree rules
2	burn	present · perfect · passive	my guard and the witch not said here	you			tree rules
3	give	past	the egg wife	the counsel	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient counsel=Theme
4	is a	past	the egg wife	the witch		wife nmod:unmarked	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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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