The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 70

But the witch’s daughter gnawed bones under the table, and the Prince gave her a push by mistake, which broke her leg—he had never noticed her crawling about among the people’s feet.

Who acts: daughter, Prince, mistake · What happens: gnaw, give, break, not notice, crawl · To what, where: bones, table, push, daughter, leg, feet

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 (daughter, Prince, mistake), 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	_	6 gnawed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughter	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 witch	case
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gnawed	nsubj
6	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gnawed	obj
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 table	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 table	det
10	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gnawed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gave	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Prince	det
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 gave	nsubj
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gnawed	parataxis
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gave	iobj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 push	det
18	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 mistake	case
20	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 broke	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 broke	nsubj
23	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 mistake	acl:relcl
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 leg	nmod:poss
25	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 broke	obj
26	—	-	PUNCT	_	30 noticed	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 noticed	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 noticed	aux
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 noticed	advmod
30	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 gave	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 noticed	obj
32	crawling	crawl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 noticed	xcomp
33	about	about	ADV	_	32 crawling	advmod
34	among	among	ADP	_	38 feet	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 people	det
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 feet	nmod:poss
37	’s	's	PART	_	36 people	case
38	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 crawling	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gnawed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	gnaw	participle	the witch's daughter	bones		the table		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
2	give	past	the Prince	a push	daughter		by mistake	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient push=Theme
3	break	past	mistake	daughter's leg				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient
4	not notice	past · perfect	Prince	daughter				tree rules
5	crawl	gerund	daughter not said here			the people's feet	about property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among foot=Trajectory

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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