The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 118
When the old Witch wanted to get in she stood underneath and called out:
Who acts: old Witch, witch · What happens: want, get, stand, call out
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 (old Witch, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 wanted | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Witch | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Witch | amod |
| 4 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wanted | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 stood | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | advcl |
| 11 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 10 stood | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 called | cc |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 stood | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 called | compound:prt |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the old Witch | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old Witch not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | witch | underneath property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | participle | witch not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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