The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 142
The old Witch, of course, knew nothing of what was going on, till one day Rapunzel, not thinking of what she was about, turned to the Witch and said:
Who acts: old Witch · What happens: know, go on, not think, turn, say · To what, where: nothing, witch · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Witch | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Witch | amod |
| 3 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 course | punct |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 course | case |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Witch | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Witch | punct |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 knew | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 what | case |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 nothing | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 going | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Rapunzel | punct |
| 16 | till | till | ADP | _ | 19 Rapunzel | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 day | nummod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Rapunzel | compound |
| 19 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 knew | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thinking | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 thinking | advmod |
| 22 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 knew | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 what | case |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 thinking | obl |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 turned | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 turned | aux:pass |
| 27 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 turned | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 about | punct |
| 29 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 what | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Witch | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Witch | det |
| 32 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 turned | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 said | cc |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 turned | conj |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the old Witch and course | nothing | till day Rapunzel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go on | past · progressive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not think speech: other | gerund | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | turn | past · passive | witch | to the Witch result; about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme to witch=Result | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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