The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 99
Very unwillingly the old witch opened a cupboard close by filled with bottles and jars, and took down one and held it out to the young man.
Who acts: old witch · What happens: open, fill, take down, hold out · To what, where: cupboard, one
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 (old 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 unwillingly | advmod |
| 2 | unwillingly | unwillingly | ADV | _ | 6 opened | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 witch | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 witch | amod |
| 5 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | nsubj |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cupboard | det |
| 8 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | obj |
| 9 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cupboard | amod |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 filled | mark |
| 11 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 close | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 bottles | case |
| 13 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 filled | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 jars | cc |
| 15 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bottles | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 opened | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 took | compound:prt |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 took | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 held | cc |
| 22 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 held | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 held | compound:prt |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 man | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 27 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 man | amod |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 held | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the old witch | a cupboard | unwillingly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cupboard=Theme | |||
| 2 | fill | participle | the old witch not said here | with bottles and jars | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with bottle=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | take down | past | the old witch not said here | one | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold out | past | the old witch not said here | cupboard | to the young man | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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