The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 145

‘Oh! you wicked child,’ cried the Witch.

Who acts: you, wicked child · What happens: child, cry · 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 (you, wicked child), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 child	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 child	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 child	nsubj
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 child	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 child	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Witch	det
11	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	child		you						tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	wicked child	the Witch					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Topic

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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