The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 113
Then the Witch’s anger was a little appeased, and she said:
Who acts: wish, Witch · What happens: appease, say, anger · To what, where: anger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wish, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 appeased | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Witch | det |
| 3 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 anger | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Witch | case |
| 5 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appeased | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 appeased | aux:pass |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 little | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 appeased | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | appeased | appease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appease | past · passive | the Witch's anger | then | a little obl:unmarked | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | anger | the Witch | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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