The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 129
And the wicked woman had them stewed in salt, and ate them up, thinking she had made an end of Snowdrop for ever.
Who acts: woman · What happens: stew, eat up, think, make · To what, where: wicked woman, lungs, end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stewed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stewed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stewed | aux |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stewed | nsubj |
| 7 | stewed | stew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 salt | case |
| 9 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stewed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ate | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ate | cc |
| 12 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stewed | parataxis |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ate | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 ate | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thinking | punct |
| 16 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 ate | advcl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 thinking | ccomp |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 end | det |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Snowdrop | case |
| 23 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 end | nmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 ever | case |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 made | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stew | past · perfect · passive | the wicked woman | in salt | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in salt=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | eat up | past | lungs = lung | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | make | past · perfect | woman | a end of Snowdrop | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent end=Product for ever=Asset |
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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