The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 211

And by the witchcraft which she understood so well she made a poisonous comb; then she dressed herself up and assumed the form of another old woman.

Who acts: SNOWDROP · What happens: understand, make, dress up, assume, form · To what, where: witchcraft, poisonous comb, SNOWDROP, form, old woman

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 made	cc
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 witchcraft	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witchcraft	det
4	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 understood	obj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 understood	nsubj
7	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 witchcraft	acl:relcl
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 well	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 understood	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	nsubj
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 comb	det
13	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 comb	amod
14	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 dressed	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 dressed	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dressed	nsubj
18	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	conj
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 dressed	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	18 dressed	compound:prt
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 assumed	cc
22	assumed	assume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dressed	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 form	det
24	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 assumed	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 woman	case
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 woman	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 woman	amod
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 form	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	understand	past	SNOWDROP	the witchcraft		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
2	make	past	SNOWDROP	a poisonous comb		by the witchcraft	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Product
3	dress up	past	SNOWDROP	SNOWDROP	then		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
4	assume	past	SNOWDROP not said here	the form of another old woman			vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
5	form			another old woman			nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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