The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 70
When he had done this there was a great lake behind them, and this the witch could not cross until she ran home again and brought her dough-trough.
Who acts: witch · What happens: do, not cross, run, bring · To what, where: prince, dough trough
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.
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | obj |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lake | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lake | amod |
| 10 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lake | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cross | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cross | cc |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 witch | det |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 witch | det |
| 17 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cross | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 cross | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 cross | advmod |
| 20 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 done | parataxis |
| 21 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 ran | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ran | nsubj |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cross | advcl |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 ran | advmod |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 ran | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 brought | cc |
| 27 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ran | conj |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 trough | nmod:poss |
| 29 | dough | dough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 trough | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 dough | punct |
| 31 | trough | trough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 brought | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not cross | could | this witch | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | past | witch | again | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | bring | past | witch not said here | witch's dough trough | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent trough=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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