The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 43

‘Ah! do not look at it,’ she answered, ‘for it comes from the house of a wicked witch whom no man can manage to kill.’

Who acts: wife, two, man · What happens: not look, answer, come, manage, kill · To what, where: house, wicked witch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, two, man), 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 look	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 look	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 look	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 look	advmod
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 answered	ccomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 look	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 answered	nsubj
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 comes	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 comes	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 comes	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 comes	nsubj
17	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 answered	conj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 house	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 house	det
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 comes	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 witch	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 witch	det
23	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 witch	amod
24	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 house	nmod
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 manage	obj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 manage	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 manage	aux
29	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 witch	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 kill	mark
31	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 manage	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not look	infinitive · do-support				at two	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past	wife				tree rules
3	come	present	two		the house of a wicked witch		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from house=Initial_Location
4	manage	can	no man	a wicked witch			tree rules
5	kill	to-infinitive	no man not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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