The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 31
But the witch kindled a fire on the hearth, threw a potful of barleycorns among the cinders, and said to the girl:
Who acts: witch · What happens: kindle, throw, say · To what, where: fire, hearth, potful, cinders, girl · 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 kindled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kindled | nsubj |
| 4 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fire | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kindled | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 hearth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hearth | det |
| 9 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kindled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 threw | punct |
| 11 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kindled | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 potful | det |
| 13 | potful | potful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 threw | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 barleycorns | case |
| 15 | barleycorns | barleycorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 potful | nmod |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 cinders | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cinders | det |
| 18 | cinders | cinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 threw | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kindled | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 girl | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 girl | det |
| 24 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 kindled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kindle | past | the witch | a fire | the hearth | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient | |||
| 2 | throw | past | a potful of barleycorns | the cinders | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent potful=Theme among cinder=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the witch not said here | the girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to girl=Recipient |
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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