The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 52

He struggled with her, but could not free himself, and the witch called to her daughter, ‘Come and help me; we shall put him into the little dark room to be fattened.

Who acts: property, witch, we · What happens: struggle, not free, call, come, help, put · To what, where: property, daughter, me, little dark room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (property, witch, we), 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:pg5615:2894): 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 struggled	nsubj
2	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 struggled	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 free	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 free	cc
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 free	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 free	advmod
9	free	free	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 struggled	conj
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 free	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 called	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 called	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 witch	det
14	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	nsubj
15	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 struggled	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 daughter	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 daughter	nmod:poss
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Come	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 Come	punct
21	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 called	ccomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 help	cc
23	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 Come	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 help	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 put	punct
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 put	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 put	aux
28	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 Come	parataxis
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	34 room	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 room	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 room	amod
33	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 room	amod
34	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
35	to	to	PART	_	37 fattened	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 fattened	aux:pass
37	fattened	fatten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 put	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 struggled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	struggle	past	property				with witch	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-Agent
2	not free	could	property not said here	property				vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer himself=Source
3	call speech: assert	past	the witch		witch's daughter			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
4	come	infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	help	infinitive			me			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
6	put	shall	we		property	the little dark room		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
7	fatten	to-infinitive · passive	we not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»

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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