The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 16

She had crept secretly after them, and had cast her spells over all the streams in the forest.

Who acts: stepmother · What happens: creep, cast, spell · To what, where: spells, streams

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 (stepmother), 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	3 crept	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crept	aux
3	crept	creep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	3 crept	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crept	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cast	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cast	cc
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cast	aux
10	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 crept	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 spells	nmod:poss
12	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cast	obj
13	over	over	ADP	_	16 streams	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 streams	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 streams	det
16	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cast	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 forest	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 forest	det
19	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 streams	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	past · perfect	stepmother			after Heaven	secretly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cast	past · perfect	stepmother not said here	stepmother's spells	all streams in the forest			vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spell=Theme over stream=Destination
3	spell		stepmother					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 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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