The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 78

Depend upon it some magic or witchcraft has been at work.

Who acts: you, witchcraft · What happens: depend, be · To what, where: magic, work

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 (you, witchcraft), 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	Depend	depend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Depend	obl
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 magic	det
5	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Depend	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 work	cc
7	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 work	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 work	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 work	cop
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 work	case
11	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 magic	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Depend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depend	imperative	you not said here	some magic or work				upon behaviour	tree rules
2	is	present · perfect	witchcraft			work			tree rules

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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