The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 121

Whenever she heard the Witch’s voice she unloosed her plaits, and let her hair fall down out of the window about twenty yards below, and the old Witch climbed up by it.

Who acts: witch, hair, old Witch · What happens: hear, unloose, let, fall down, climb up · To what, where: voice, plaits, hair, window

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 (witch, hair, old 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	Whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 heard	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 unloosed	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Witch	det
5	Witch	Witch	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 voice	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Witch	case
7	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 unloosed	nsubj
9	unloosed	unloose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 plaits	nmod:poss
11	plaits	plait	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 unloosed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 let	cc
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 unloosed	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hair	nmod:poss
16	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	obj
17	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 fall	compound:prt
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 window	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 window	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 window	det
22	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fall	obl
23	about	about	ADV	_	24 twenty	advmod
24	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 yards	nummod
25	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 below	obl:unmarked
26	below	below	ADV	_	17 fall	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 climbed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 climbed	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Witch	det
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Witch	amod
31	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 climbed	nsubj
32	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 unloosed	parataxis
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 climbed	compound:prt
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 climbed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 unloosed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	witch	the Witch's voice		whenever property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
2	unloose	past	witch	witch's plaits			tree rules
3	let	infinitive	witch not said here	witch's hair			tree rules
4	fall down	infinitive	witch's hair not said here		the window	below property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out window=Location
5	climb up	past	the old Witch			by hair	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by it=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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