The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 66
When the witch came to the forest she could not get through it until she went home and brought her axe to cut a path.
Who acts: witch · What happens: come, not get, go, bring, cut · To what, where: forest, axe, path
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), 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:pg5615:2651): 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 get | advmod |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | obl |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 went | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | advcl |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brought | cc |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 axe | nmod:poss |
| 21 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 cut | mark |
| 23 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 brought | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 path | det |
| 25 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cut | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the witch | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not get | could | witch | forest | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | go | past | witch | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | past | witch not said here | witch's axe | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cut | to-infinitive | witch not said here | a path | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset path=Product |
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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