The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 78

‘The witch’s power lies in her hair; so when you see her spring on her and seize her by the hair, and then she cannot harm you.

Who acts: power, you · What happens: lie, see, seize, not harm · To what, where: hair, power, you

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 (power, you), 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 lies	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 power	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 witch	case
5	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lies	nsubj
6	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hair	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hair	nmod:poss
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lies	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 see	advmod
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 see	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
14	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lies	parataxis
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 spring	nmod:poss
16	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seize	cc
20	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 see	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seize	obj
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 hair	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hair	det
24	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seize	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 harm	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 harm	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 harm	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 harm	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 harm	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 harm	advmod
31	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 see	conj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 harm	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	the witch's power		power's hair			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hair=Location
2	see	present	you			spring	on power	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	seize	infinitive	you not said here	power			by the hair	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	not harm	can	power	you		then		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=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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