The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 69

She wrung her hands and shed tears, but then she recollected herself, and cried out, ‘Wood, I charge you by my three magic gifts, the scissors, the comb, and the reel--to let me through’; and it opened, and she went along a walk till she came in sight of a palace, and a lawn, and a woodman’s cottage on the edge of the wood where it came nearest the palace.

Who acts: half, I, reel, wood, my · What happens: wring, shed, recollect, cry out, charge, let · To what, where: hands, tears, half, Wood, you, me

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 (half, I, reel, wood), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrung	nsubj
2	wrung	wring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wrung	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shed	cc
6	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wrung	conj
7	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 recollected	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 recollected	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 recollected	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 recollected	nsubj
12	recollected	recollect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wrung	conj
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 recollected	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cried	cc
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wrung	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 cried	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Wood	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 Wood	punct
20	Wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cried	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 charge	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 charge	nsubj
23	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 cried	parataxis
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 charge	iobj
25	by	by	ADP	_	29 gifts	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 gifts	nmod:poss
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 gifts	nummod
28	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 gifts	amod
29	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 charge	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 scissors	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 scissors	det
32	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 gifts	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 comb	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 comb	det
35	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gifts	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 let	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 let	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 reel	det
39	reel	reel	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 let	nsubj
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 let	punct
41	to	to	PART	_	42 let	mark
42	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 charge	parataxis
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 let	obj
44	through	through	ADP	_	45 ’	case
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	42 let	punct
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 opened	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 opened	cc
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 opened	nsubj
49	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wrung	parataxis
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 went	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 went	cc
52	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 went	nsubj
53	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 opened	conj
54	along	along	ADP	_	56 walk	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 walk	det
56	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 went	obl
57	till	till	SCONJ	_	59 came	mark
58	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 came	nsubj
59	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 went	advcl
60	in	in	ADP	_	61 sight	case
61	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 came	obl
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 palace	case
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 palace	det
64	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 sight	nmod
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 lawn	punct
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 lawn	cc
67	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	68 lawn	det
68	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 opened	obl
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 cottage	punct
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	74 cottage	cc
71	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	72 woodman	det
72	woodman	woodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 cottage	nmod:poss
73	’s	's	PART	_	72 woodman	case
74	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 opened	obl
75	on	on	ADP	_	77 edge	case
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 edge	det
77	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 cottage	nmod
78	of	of	ADP	_	80 wood	case
79	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	80 wood	det
80	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 edge	nmod
81	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	83 came	advmod
82	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	83 came	nsubj
83	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	80 wood	acl:relcl
84	nearest	nearest	ADP	_	86 palace	case
85	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	86 palace	det
86	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	83 came	obl
87	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wrung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wring	past	half	half's hands					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	shed	past	half not said here	tears					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source
3	recollect	past	half	half			then		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
4	cry out speech: express	past	half not said here	Wood					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	charge	present	I		you			by my three magic gifts and the scissors and the comb	tree rules
6	let	to-infinitive	the reel	me					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	open	past	reel	a lawn				a woodman's cottage on the edge of the wood obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	go	past	half			a walk			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along walk=Initial_Location
9	come	past	half			sight of a palace			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location
10	come	past	wood					nearest the palace	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	gift		my						nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent
12	sight			a palace					nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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