The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 62

So Esben was fed for a while longer on sweet milk and nut-kernels, until one day the witch thought that now he must surely be fat enough, and told her daughter again to go and cut a finger off him.

Who acts: witch, property · What happens: feed, think, be, tell, go, cut · To what, where: Esben, sweet milk, 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 (witch, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 fed	advmod
2	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fed	aux:pass
4	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 while	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 while	det
7	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fed	obl
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 fed	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 milk	case
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 milk	amod
11	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fed	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 kernels	cc
13	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kernels	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 nut	punct
15	kernels	kernel	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 milk	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
17	until	until	SCONJ	_	22 thought	mark
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 day	nummod
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thought	obl:unmarked
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 witch	det
21	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thought	nsubj
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fed	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 fat	mark
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 fat	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fat	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 fat	aux
27	surely	surely	ADV	_	29 fat	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 fat	cop
29	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thought	ccomp
30	enough	enough	ADV	_	29 fat	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 told	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 told	cc
33	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 thought	conj
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 daughter	nmod:poss
35	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 told	iobj
36	again	again	ADV	_	33 told	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 go	mark
38	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 told	ccomp
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 cut	cc
40	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	38 go	conj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 finger	det
42	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cut	obj
43	off	off	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 cut	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past · passive		Esben		sweet milk and nut kernels	while	long property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	think speech: other	past	the witch				day		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	must	property				now	enough, fat, surely property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past	the witch not said here		witch's daughter		again		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cut	infinitive		a finger				off property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent finger=Patient off he=Co-Patient

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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