The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 64

This the daughter did, and the witch cried, ‘Ah! now he is fat--so fat that one can scarcely feel the bone in him.

Who acts: daughter, witch, property, one · What happens: do, cry, be, feel · To what, where: bone

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, property, one), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 daughter	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 daughter	det
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cried	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 witch	det
8	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fat	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 fat	punct
12	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	17 fat	discourse
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 Ah	punct
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 fat	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fat	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fat	cop
17	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cried	conj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 fat	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 fat	advmod
20	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cried	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 feel	mark
22	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 feel	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 feel	aux
24	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	25 feel	advmod
25	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fat	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bone	det
27	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 feel	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 feel	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	this daughter				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	the witch				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	property		now	fat property	tree rules
4	feel	can	one	the bone		in property; scarcely property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bone=Theme in he=Location

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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