The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 193

But when the witch wife saw them she ran away with her daughter, and if she has not stopped she is running still, though at a great age.

Who acts: witch wife, wife · What happens: see, run away, not stop, run · To what, where: shapes, great age

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 wife, wife), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 ran	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 saw	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wife	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wife	compound
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ran	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	obj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ran	nsubj
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 ran	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 daughter	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughter	nmod:poss
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stopped	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stopped	cc
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 stopped	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stopped	nsubj
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 stopped	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 stopped	advmod
20	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 ran	conj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 running	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 running	aux
23	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 stopped	xcomp
24	still	still	ADV	_	23 running	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 age	punct
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	30 age	mark
27	at	at	ADP	_	30 age	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 age	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 age	amod
30	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stopped	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the witch wife	shapes = shape			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	run away	past	wife			with wife's daughter; away property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with daughter=Material
3	not stop a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	wife		at a great age		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	run	present · progressive	wife		still		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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