The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 57

At midnight the witch came to the door of the room and called in to them, and the two pieces of wood answered her, so that she believed they were there, and went away again.

Who acts: witch, two pieces, piece, pot · What happens: come, call in, answer, believe, be, go away · To what, where: door, pot, witch · 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 (witch, two pieces, piece, pot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:2643): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 midnight	case
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 room	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 door	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 called	cc
13	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	13 called	compound:prt
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 called	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 answered	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 answered	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pieces	det
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 pieces	nummod
21	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 answered	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 wood	case
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pieces	nmod
24	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 answered	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 believed	punct
27	so	so	SCONJ	_	30 believed	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 believed	nsubj
30	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 answered	advcl
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 there	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 there	cop
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 believed	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 went	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 went	cc
36	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
37	away	away	ADV	_	36 went	advmod
38	again	again	ADV	_	36 went	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the witch		the door of the room	midnight		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
2	call in speech: assert	past	the witch not said here	pot				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
3	answer speech: assert	past	the two pieces of wood	witch				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
4	believe	past	piece					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	pot				there property	tree rules
6	go away	past	the witch not said here			again	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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