The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 192
‘She will not eat you up,’ answered her husband; and they started for home with the child.
Who acts: witch, shapes · What happens: not eat up, answer, start · To what, where: you, husband
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, shapes), 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 | _ | 5 eat | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 eat | advmod |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 eat | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 eat | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | parataxis |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 husband | nmod:poss |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 started | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 started | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 started | nsubj |
| 16 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 home | case |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 started | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 child | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 child | det |
| 21 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 started | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat up | future | witch | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | witch's husband | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent husband=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | start | past | shapes = shape | for home; with the child | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with child=Subeventuality |
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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