The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 5

The woman neither spat, nor did she run between her legs, but yet the witch changed her into a sheep.

Who acts: woman spat, witch · What happens: run, change · To what, where: legs, spat

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 (woman spat, 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 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spat	compound
3	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	4 spat	det
4	spat	spat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 run	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 run	punct
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	9 run	cc
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 run	aux
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 run	nsubj
9	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	between	between	ADP	_	12 legs	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 legs	nmod:poss
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 run	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 changed	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 changed	cc
15	yet	yet	ADV	_	18 changed	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 witch	det
17	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 changed	nsubj
18	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 run	parataxis
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 changed	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 sheep	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sheep	det
22	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 changed	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past · do-support	neither woman spat			spat's legs			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between leg=Trajectory
2	change	past	the witch	spat			yet	into a sheep result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient into sheep=Result

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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