The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 60

The daughter did so, but when the witch bit it she cried, ‘Uh! no, no!

Who acts: daughter, witch · What happens: do, bite, cry · To what, where: piece

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 (daughter, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 daughter	det
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 cried	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 bit	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 witch	det
9	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bit	nsubj
10	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cried	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bit	obj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cried	nsubj
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Uh	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Uh	punct
16	Uh	uh	INTJ	_	13 cried	discourse
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 Uh	punct
18	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	16 Uh	discourse
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Uh	punct
20	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	16 Uh	discourse
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	the daughter		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bite	past	the witch	piece	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	cry speech: express	past	daughter		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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