The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 197

It was she who in the disguise of an old woman gave you the thread to bind round my foot.

Who acts: spell, disguise · What happens: be, give, bind · To what, where: disguise, thread, you

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 (spell, disguise), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 disguise	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 disguise	cop
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 disguise	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 disguise	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 disguise	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 disguise	det
7	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 woman	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obl
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 disguise	acl:relcl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 gave	iobj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thread	det
15	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 bind	mark
17	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 gave	advcl
18	round	round	ADP	_	20 foot	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 foot	nmod:poss
20	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bind	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 disguise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	spell			the disguise		tree rules
2	give	past	the disguise not said here	the thread	you		of a old woman	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient thread=Theme
3	bind	to-infinitive	the disguise not said here				round my foot	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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