The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 15
Now their cruel stepmother was in reality a witch, and she knew perfectly well that the two children had run away.
Who acts: cruel stepmother, stepmother, two children · What happens: be, know, run away · To what, where: witch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cruel stepmother, stepmother, two children), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 witch | advmod |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stepmother | amod |
| 4 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 witch | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 witch | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 reality | case |
| 7 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 witch | det |
| 9 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 knew | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knew | nsubj |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 witch | conj |
| 14 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 15 well | advmod |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 knew | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 run | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 children | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 children | nummod |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 run | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 run | aux |
| 21 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 knew | ccomp |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 run | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 witch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Heaven's cruel stepmother | a witch | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | past | stepmother | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | run away | past · perfect | the two children | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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