The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 134
‘So, so,’ said the witch to herself; ‘I had better away with my gift for the infant, then.’
Who acts: I, my · What happens: say, have, gift · To what, where: witch · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, my), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ’ | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 witch | det |
| 9 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 herself | case |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 said | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 away | advmod |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 had | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 gift | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 gift | nmod:poss |
| 20 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 away | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 infant | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 infant | det |
| 23 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 had | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 infant | punct |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 had | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the witch | witch | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | I | then | for the infant; away property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | gift | my | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=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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