The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 99

‘Then you’ll catch it,’ said the witch.

Who acts: you · What happens: catch, say · To what, where: dove, witch · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you), 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	_	5 catch	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 catch	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 catch	nsubj
4	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 catch	aux
5	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 catch	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 catch	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 catch	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 witch	det
11	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	future	you	dove			then		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the witch					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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