The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 108

She tied a wooden beetle on where her child’s foot should have been, a log of wood instead of an arm, and stuck a bit of dirt in the empty socket for an eye, and took the child with her to the castle.

Who acts: witch, foot · What happens: tie, be, stick, take · To what, where: wooden beetle, bit, empty socket, child, castle

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, foot), 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	2 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 beetle	det
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beetle	amod
5	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obj
6	on	on	SCONJ	_	14 been	mark
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 been	advmod
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 child	nmod:poss
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 foot	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 child	case
11	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 been	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 been	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 been	aux
14	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 tied	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 log	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 log	det
17	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 wood	case
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 log	nmod
20	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	23 arm	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	20 instead	fixed
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 arm	det
23	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wood	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stuck	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stuck	cc
26	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tied	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bit	det
28	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stuck	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 dirt	case
30	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bit	nmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 socket	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 socket	det
33	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 socket	amod
34	socket	socket	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stuck	obl
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 eye	case
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 eye	det
37	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stuck	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 took	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 took	cc
40	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tied	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 child	det
42	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 took	obj
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 her	case
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 took	obl
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 castle	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 castle	det
47	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 took	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tie	past	witch	a wooden beetle		a log of wood instead a arm obl	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Patient
2	be	should · perfect	witch's child's foot				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stick	past	witch not said here	a bit of dirt	the empty socket	for a eye	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bit=Theme in socket=Destination
4	take	past	witch not said here	the child	the castle	with witch	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to castle=Destination

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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