The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 169

Then she told them how her stepmother had wished her put to death, and how the Huntsman had spared her life, and how she had run the whole day till she had come to their little house.

Who acts: SNOWDROP · What happens: tell, wish, put, spare, run, come · To what, where: dwarfs, stepmother, Huntsman, little house · 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 (SNOWDROP), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 wished	advmod
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 stepmother	nmod:poss
7	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wished	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wished	aux
9	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	ccomp
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wished	obj
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wished	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 death	case
13	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 spared	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 spared	cc
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 spared	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Huntsman	det
18	Huntsman	Huntsman	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 spared	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 spared	aux
20	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 life	nmod:poss
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spared	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 run	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 run	cc
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 run	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 run	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 run	aux
28	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 day	det
30	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 day	amod
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 run	obl:unmarked
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	35 come	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 come	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 come	aux
35	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 run	advcl
36	to	to	ADP	_	39 house	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 house	nmod:poss
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 house	amod
39	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 come	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	SNOWDROP		dwarfs = dwarf		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	wish	past · perfect · passive		SNOWDROP's stepmother					tree rules
3	put not said to happen	infinitive						to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	spare	past · perfect · passive		the Huntsman					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient life=Asset
5	run	past · perfect	SNOWDROP				day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	past · perfect	SNOWDROP			dwarfs's little house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location

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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