The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 136

Thus it happened that she came to the bank of the river, and there she saw the beautiful golden hemlock growing in the middle of the bridge, and when she began to cut it down to take to her grandchild, she heard a voice moaning:

Who acts: it, witch, beautiful golden hemlock, voice · What happens: happen, come, see, grow, begin, cut down · To what, where: bank, beautiful golden hemlock, middle, hemlock, voice

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 (it, witch, beautiful golden hemlock, voice), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	3 happened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 bank	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bank	det
9	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bank	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 saw	cc
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 saw	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hemlock	det
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hemlock	amod
20	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hemlock	amod
21	hemlock	hemlock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obj
22	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 hemlock	acl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 middle	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 middle	det
25	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 growing	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 bridge	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bridge	det
28	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 middle	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 began	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 began	cc
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 began	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 began	nsubj
33	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 saw	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 cut	mark
35	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 began	xcomp
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 cut	obj
37	down	down	ADP	_	35 cut	compound:prt
38	to	to	PART	_	39 take	mark
39	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 cut	advcl
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 grandchild	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 grandchild	nmod:poss
42	grandchild	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 take	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 heard	punct
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 heard	nsubj
45	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	parataxis
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 voice	det
47	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 heard	obj
48	moaning	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 voice	acl
49	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it			thus property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	witch		the bank of the river		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bank=Initial_Location
3	see	past	witch	the beautiful golden hemlock	there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hemlock=Stimulus
4	grow	gerund	the beautiful golden hemlock not said here		the middle of the bridge		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location
5	begin	past	witch				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	cut down	to-infinitive	witch not said here	hemlock			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
7	take	to-infinitive	witch not said here			to witch's grandchild result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to grandchild=Result
8	hear	past	witch	a voice			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
9	moan	gerund	a voice not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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