The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 42

‘I will ride on it,’ said the prince; but with that the witch dragged it away again, and came back with an old, wrinkled, toothless hag, whose hands trembled with age.

Who acts: I · What happens: ride, say, drag away, come back, wrinkle, tremble · To what, where: thread, prince, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	4 ride	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 ride	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ride	aux
4	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ride	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ride	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 ride	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prince	det
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 dragged	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 dragged	cc
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 witch	case
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 with	fixed
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 witch	det
17	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dragged	obl
18	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dragged	obj
20	away	away	ADV	_	18 dragged	advmod
21	again	again	ADV	_	18 dragged	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 came	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	33 hag	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 hag	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 hag	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wrinkled	punct
30	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 old	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 old	punct
32	toothless	toothless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 hag	amod
33	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 hands	punct
35	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	36 hands	nmod:poss
36	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 hag	appos
37	trembled	tremble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 hands	acl
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 age	case
39	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 trembled	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	future	I		thread			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past		the prince				tree rules
3	drag away	past		thread		again	with the witch; away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	come back	past					with a old toothless hag	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wrinkle	participle						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	tremble	participle		a old toothless hag's hands not said here		with age		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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