The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 141
In a moment the witch had the bridge shivered to atoms, and then she hastened away to the palace.
Who acts: witch · What happens: have, shiver, hasten away · To what, where: bridge, palace
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 witch | det |
| 5 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bridge | det |
| 8 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | shivered | shiver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 bridge | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 atoms | case |
| 11 | atoms | atom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shivered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hastened | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hastened | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 hastened | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hastened | nsubj |
| 16 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 hastened | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 palace | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 palace | det |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hastened | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the witch | the bridge | moment | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient | |||
| 2 | shiver | participle | the bridge not said here | to atoms | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | hasten away | past | witch | the palace | then | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to palace=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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