The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 141

They arranged that till the ladder was ready, he was to come to her every evening, because the old woman was with her during the day.

Who acts: hands, horse, old woman · What happens: arrange, be, come · To what, where: witch

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 (hands, horse, old woman), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 arranged	nsubj
2	arranged	arrange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 ready	mark
4	till	till	ADP	_	6 ladder	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ladder	det
6	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ready	obl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ready	cop
8	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 arranged	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 arranged	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 come	obl
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 evening	det
17	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 her	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 her	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 woman	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 her	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 her	cop
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 come	parataxis
26	during	during	ADP	_	28 day	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 day	det
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 arranged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	arrange	past	hands = hand				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	hands = hand not said here		till the ladder	ready property	tree rules
3	come	past	horse	witch	day; evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
4	is	past	the old woman			with woman	tree rules

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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