The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 57

When some time had passed the witch told her daughter to go and cut a finger off Esben, so that she could see whether he was nearly fat enough yet.

Who acts: time, witch, daughter, property · What happens: pass, tell, go, cut, see, be · To what, where: daughter, finger · 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 (time, witch, daughter, property), 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	5 passed	advmod
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	aux
5	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 witch	det
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	conj
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 daughter	nmod:poss
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	iobj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 go	mark
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cut	cc
14	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 finger	det
16	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cut	obj
17	off	off	ADP	_	18 Esben	case
18	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 cut	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 see	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	24 see	advmod
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 see	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 see	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 see	aux
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	conj
25	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	29 fat	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fat	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 fat	cop
28	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	29 fat	advmod
29	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 see	ccomp
30	enough	enough	ADV	_	29 fat	advmod
31	yet	yet	ADV	_	24 see	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect	some time					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the witch		witch's daughter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the witch not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cut	infinitive	the witch not said here	a finger			off Esben	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent finger=Patient off esben=Co-Patient
5	see	could	daughter			yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	property				enough, fat, nearly property	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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