The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 118

The witch would not allow them to be handed to the cinder wench; she worked at her own daughter’s head and feet till she got the things forced on.

Who acts: witch · What happens: not allow, hand, work, get, force on · To what, where: gold, cinder wench, things

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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 allow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 allow	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 allow	advmod
5	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 allow	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 handed	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 handed	aux:pass
9	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 allow	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 wench	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wench	det
12	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wench	compound
13	wench	wench	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 handed	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 worked	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 worked	nsubj
16	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 allow	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	22 head	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 daughter	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 daughter	amod
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 head	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 daughter	case
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 worked	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 feet	cc
24	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 head	conj
25	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 got	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 got	nsubj
27	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 worked	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 things	det
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 got	obj
30	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 things	acl
31	on	on	ADP	_	30 forced	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 allow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not allow	would	the witch		gold			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
2	hand	to-infinitive · passive	the witch not said here			the cinder wench		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to wench=Destination
3	work	past	witch				at witch's own daughter's head and feet	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at head=Theme
4	get	past	witch	the things				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
5	force on	participle		the things not said here				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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