The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 142

Stepping up to the young Queen’s bed, she began to try her magic arts upon her, saying:

Who acts: witch · What happens: step up, begin, try, say · To what, where: bed, magic arts · 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 (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	Stepping	step	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 began	advcl
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Stepping	compound:prt
3	to	to	ADP	_	8 bed	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Queen	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Queen	amod
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bed	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Queen	case
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stepping	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Stepping	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 try	mark
13	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 arts	nmod:poss
15	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 arts	amod
16	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 try	obj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 try	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saying	punct
20	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 try	advcl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	step up	gerund	witch not said here		the young Queen's bed		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bed=Destination
2	begin	past	witch				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	try	to-infinitive	witch not said here	witch's magic arts		upon witch	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	gerund	witch not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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