The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 66

Now this was just the very time that the witch had to go to Troms Church, where all the witches gather once every year, so she had no time to deal with Esben herself.

Who acts: this, witch, witches · What happens: be, have, go, gather, deal · To what, where: time, Troms Church, witch

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 (this, witch, witches), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 had	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 time	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 time	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 time	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 time	advmod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Now	ccomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 witch	det
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 time	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Church	case
15	Troms	Troms	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Church	compound
16	Church	Church	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gather	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 gather	advmod
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 witches	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 witches	det
21	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gather	nsubj
22	gather	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Church	conj
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 gather	advmod
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 year	det
25	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 once	obl:unmarked
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 had	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 time	det
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 deal	mark
33	deal	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 time	acl
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 Esben	case
35	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 deal	obl
36	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 deal	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this	the time				tree rules
2	have	past	the witch					tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	the witch not said here		Troms Church			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
4	gather	present	all witches				once property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	have	past	witch			now; time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	deal	to-infinitive	witch not said here	witch			with Esben	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with esben=Theme

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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