The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 145

She neither spat nor did anything else, but still the witch changed her into a reindeer, and smuggled her own daughter into her place as the Prince’s wife.

Who acts: woman, witch · What happens: do, change, smuggle · To what, where: anything, woman, reindeer, own daughter, place

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 (woman, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
2	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	3 spat	det
3	spat	spat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 She	nsubj
4	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	5 did	cc
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 did	obj
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 anything	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 changed	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 changed	cc
10	still	still	ADV	_	13 changed	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 witch	det
12	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 changed	nsubj
13	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 changed	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 reindeer	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 reindeer	det
17	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 changed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 smuggled	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 smuggled	cc
20	smuggled	smuggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 daughter	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 daughter	amod
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 smuggled	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 place	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 place	nmod:poss
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 smuggled	obl
27	as	as	ADP	_	31 wife	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Prince	det
29	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 wife	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 Prince	case
31	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 place	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	woman	anything				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
2	change	past	the witch	woman		still	into a reindeer result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient into reindeer=Result
3	smuggle	past	woman not said here	woman's own daughter	woman's place as the Prince's wife			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme

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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