The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 107

When the old witch had gone away the Princess hid the thread very carefully, and at night she got up quietly, and with a beating heart she bound the thread round her husband’s foot.

Who acts: old witch, Princess · What happens: go away, hide, get up, bind · To what, where: thread

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old witch, Princess), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 gone	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 witch	amod
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 hid	advcl
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 gone	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 hid	nsubj
10	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thread	det
12	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hid	obj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 carefully	advmod
14	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	10 hid	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 got	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 got	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 night	case
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 got	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 got	nsubj
20	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hid	parataxis
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 got	compound:prt
22	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	20 got	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bound	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bound	cc
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 heart	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 heart	det
27	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 heart	compound
28	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bound	obl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bound	nsubj
30	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hid	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 thread	det
32	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bound	obj
33	round	round	ADP	_	37 foot	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 husband	nmod:poss
35	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 foot	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 husband	case
37	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bound	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 hid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go away	past · perfect	the old witch			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hide	past	the Princess	the thread		carefully property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Patient
3	get up	past	Princess		night	quietly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	bind	past	Princess	the thread		with a beating heart; round Princess's husband's foot	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent thread=Patient with heart=Co-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 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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