The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 45
She was a witch, and has wedded three husbands, and each husband she has put to death with her arts.
Who acts: girl, witch · What happens: be, wed, put · To what, where: witch, three husbands, husband
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, witch), 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 | 4 witch | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past 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 | _ | 8 wedded | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wedded | cc |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wedded | aux |
| 8 | wedded | wed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 witch | acl:relcl |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 husbands | nummod |
| 10 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wedded | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 put | cc |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 husband | det |
| 14 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 put | aux |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 witch | acl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 death | case |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 arts | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 arts | nmod:poss |
| 22 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 put | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 witch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | girl | a witch | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wed | present · perfect | a witch not said here | three husbands | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient | ||||
| 3 | put | present · perfect · passive | each husband | to death; with girl's arts | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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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