The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 29

It was so dark that she could not see a hand’s breadth before her, but she felt her way, and hacked the heads off all the sleepers who had the men’s night-caps on--and these were her own daughters.

Who acts: axe, Witch, sleepers, these · What happens: be, not see, feel, hack, have · To what, where: breadth, way, heads, own daughters

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (axe, Witch, sleepers, these), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 dark	advmod
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 see	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 see	advmod
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dark	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hand	det
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 breadth	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 hand	case
13	breadth	breadth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 felt	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 felt	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 felt	nsubj
19	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	parataxis
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 way	nmod:poss
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 felt	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hacked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hacked	cc
24	hacked	hack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 felt	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 heads	det
26	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hacked	obj
27	off	off	ADP	_	30 sleepers	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 sleepers	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sleepers	det
30	sleepers	sleeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hacked	obl
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sleepers	acl:relcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 men	det
34	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 caps	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 men	case
36	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 caps	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 night	punct
38	caps	cap	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 on	nsubj
39	on	on	ADP	_	32 had	obl
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	46 daughters	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 daughters	cc
42	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	46 daughters	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 daughters	cop
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 daughters	nmod:poss
45	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 daughters	amod
46	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dark	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	axe			dark property	tree rules
2	not see	could	Witch	a hand's breadth	before sweetheart		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breadth=Stimulus
3	feel	past	Witch	Witch's way			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
4	hack	past	Witch not said here	the heads		off all sleepers	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient off sleeper=Co-Patient
5	have	past	all sleepers				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	these	Witch's own daughters			tree rules

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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