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The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 149

‘Ay, ay, your own wife is not at home,’ said the widow woman; ‘she is living like a reindeer in the wood; you have the witch’s daughter for a wife now, and the witch herself for a mother-in-law.’

Who acts: own wife, widow woman, woman, you · What happens: not be, say, live, have · To what, where: home, wood, daughter · 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 (own wife, widow woman, woman, you), 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

punctdiscoursepunctdiscoursepunctnmod:possamodnsubjcopadvmodcaseccomppunctpunctdetcompoundnsubjpunctpunctnsubjauxadvclcasedetoblcasedetoblpunctnsubjccompdetnmod:posscaseobjcasedetnmodadvmodpunctccdetparataxisnmod:unmarkedcasedetnmodpunctcasepunctnmodpunctpunctroot‘PUNCTAyINTJ,PUNCTayINTJ,PUNCTyourPRONownADJwifeNOUNisAUXnotPARTatADPhomeNOUN,PUNCT’PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETwidowNOUNwomanNOUN;PUNCT‘PUNCTshePRONisAUXlivingVERBlikeADPaDETreindeerNOUNinADPtheDETwoodNOUN;PUNCTyouPRONhaveVERBtheDETwitchNOUN’sPARTdaughterNOUNforADPaDETwifeNOUNnowADV,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETwitchNOUNherselfPRONforADPaDETmotherNOUN-PUNCTinADP-PUNCTlawNOUN.PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_12 homepunct
2AyayINTJ_4 aydiscourse
3,,PUNCT_2 Aypunct
4ayayINTJ_12 homediscourse
5,,PUNCT_4 aypunct
6youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 wifenmod:poss
7ownownADJDegree=Pos8 wifeamod
8wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing12 homensubj
9isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 homecop
10notnotPARTPolarity=Neg12 homeadvmod
11atatADP_12 homecase
12homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing15 saidccomp
13,,PUNCT_12 homepunct
14’'PUNCT_12 homepunct
15saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 womandet
17widowwidowNOUNNumber=Sing18 womancompound
18womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing15 saidnsubj
19;;PUNCT_23 livingpunct
20‘'PUNCT_23 livingpunct
21sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 livingnsubj
22isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin23 livingaux
23livingliveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part15 saidadvcl
24likelikeADP_26 reindeercase
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 reindeerdet
26reindeerreindeerNOUNNumber=Sing23 livingobl
27ininADP_29 woodcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 wooddet
29woodwoodNOUNNumber=Sing23 livingobl
30;;PUNCT_32 havepunct
31youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs32 havensubj
32havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 saidccomp
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 witchdet
34witchwitchNOUNNumber=Sing36 daughternmod:poss
35’s'sPART_34 witchcase
36daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing32 haveobj
37forforADP_39 wifecase
38aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art39 wifedet
39wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing36 daughternmod
40nownowADVPronType=Dem32 haveadvmod
41,,PUNCT_44 witchpunct
42andandCCONJ_44 witchcc
43thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art44 witchdet
44witchwitchNOUNNumber=Sing32 haveparataxis
45herselfherselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes44 witchnmod:unmarked
46forforADP_48 mothercase
47aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art48 motherdet
48mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing44 witchnmod
49--PUNCT_52 lawpunct
50ininADP_52 lawcase
51--PUNCT_50 inpunct
52lawlawNOUNNumber=Sing48 mothernmod
53..PUNCT_52 lawpunct
54’'PUNCT_44 witchpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not ispresentyour own wifehometree rules
2say speech: assertpastthe widow womanvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3livepresent · progressivewomanthe woodlike a reindeervn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location
4havepresentyouthe witch's daughternowfor a wifevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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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