The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 88
Now the witch’s strength was all gone from her, and she had to obey.
Who acts: strength, witch · What happens: be, have, obey
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 (strength, witch), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 strength | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strength | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 witch | case |
| 5 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gone | cop |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 gone | advmod |
| 8 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gone | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gone | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 obey | mark |
| 16 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 had | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the witch's strength | from witch; all, go property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | witch | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | obey | to-infinitive | witch not said here | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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