The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 155

‘How now? you are going to send the child away to the wood?’ said the witch in a suspicious tone, and tried to interfere.

Who acts: you · What happens: go, send away, say, try, interfere · To what, where: child, witch, suspicious tone · 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 (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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 going	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 now	advmod
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 going	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 now	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 going	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 going	aux
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 said	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 send	mark
9	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 going	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 child	det
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 send	obj
12	away	away	ADV	_	9 send	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 wood	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 send	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 going	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 going	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 witch	det
20	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 tone	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tone	det
23	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tone	amod
24	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 witch	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tried	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tried	cc
27	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 interfere	mark
29	interfere	interfere	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 tried	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	you			now		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	send away	to-infinitive	you not said here	the child			to the wood; away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		the witch	a suspicious tone			tree rules
4	try	past						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	interfere not said to happen	to-infinitive						tree rules

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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