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The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 133

Immediately word was brought to the witch that her daughter had borne a son—for they all believed the young King’s wife to be the witch’s daughter.

Who acts: daughter, preparations · What happens: bring, bear, believe, be · To what, where: word, witch, son, wife, daughter

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 (daughter, preparations), 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

advmodnsubj:passaux:passcasedetoblmarknmod:possnsubjauxadvcldetobjpunctmarknsubjdetadvcldetamodnmod:posscaseobjmarkcopdetnmod:posscasexcomppunctrootImmediatelyADVwordNOUNwasAUXbroughtVERBtoADPtheDETwitchNOUNthatSCONJherPRONdaughterNOUNhadAUXborneVERBaDETsonNOUN—PUNCTforSCONJtheyPRONallDETbelievedVERBtheDETyoungADJKingPROPN’sPARTwifeNOUNtoPARTbeAUXtheDETwitchNOUN’sPARTdaughterNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ImmediatelyimmediatelyADV_2 wordadvmod
2wordwordNOUNNumber=Sing4 broughtnsubj:pass
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 broughtaux:pass
4broughtbringVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
5totoADP_7 witchcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 witchdet
7witchwitchNOUNNumber=Sing4 broughtobl
8thatthatSCONJ_12 bornemark
9herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 daughternmod:poss
10daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing12 bornensubj
11hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 borneaux
12bornebearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part4 broughtadvcl
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 sondet
14sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing12 borneobj
15—-PUNCT_19 believedpunct
16forforSCONJ_19 believedmark
17theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs19 believednsubj
18allallDETPronType=Tot17 theydet
19believedbelieveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 broughtadvcl
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 Kingdet
21youngyoungADJDegree=Pos22 Kingamod
22KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing24 wifenmod:poss
23’s'sPART_22 Kingcase
24wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing19 believedobj
25totoPART_30 daughtermark
26bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf30 daughtercop
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 witchdet
28witchwitchNOUNNumber=Sing30 daughternmod:poss
29’s'sPART_28 witchcase
30daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing19 believedxcomp
31..PUNCT_4 broughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bringpast · passivewordthe witchvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to witch=Destination
2bearpast · perfectwitch's daughtera sonvn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3believepastpreparations = preparationthe young King's wifevn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
4is ato-infinitivepreparations = preparation not said herethe witch's daughtertree 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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