The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 96

Among other things the witch told her that she understood all magic arts, and that she could foretell the future, and knew the healing powers of herbs and plants.

Who acts: witch, pig · What happens: tell, understand, foretell, know · To what, where: pig, magic arts, future, healing powers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (witch, pig), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	3 things	case
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 told	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 witch	det
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 understood	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 understood	nsubj
10	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	ccomp
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 arts	det
12	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 arts	amod
13	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 understood	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 foretell	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 foretell	cc
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 foretell	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 foretell	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 foretell	aux
19	foretell	foretell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 future	det
21	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 foretell	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knew	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 knew	cc
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 powers	det
26	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 powers	compound
27	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 knew	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 herbs	case
29	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 powers	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 plants	cc
31	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 herbs	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the witch		pig	among other things	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	understand	past	pig	all magic arts			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer art=Stimulus
3	foretell	could	pig	the future			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent future=Theme
4	know	past		the healing powers of herbs and plants			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus

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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