The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 18
The witch made pease-soup of it, and set it before the daughter.
Who acts: witch · What happens: make, pease, set · To what, where: soup
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 witch | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pease | pease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | xcomp |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 soup | punct |
| 6 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pease | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 soup | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pease | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | obj |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 daughter | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 daughter | det |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the witch | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pease | infinitive | the witch not said here | soup of soup | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | the witch not said here | soup | before the daughter | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme before daughter=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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