The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 21

And as she combed Gerda’s hair, Gerda thought less and less about Kay, for the old woman was a witch, but not a wicked witch, for she only enchanted now and then to amuse herself, and she did want to keep little Gerda very much.

Who acts: girl, Gerda, old woman · What happens: comb, think, be, enchant, amuse, want · To what, where: hair, girl, little Gerda · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, Gerda, old woman), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 combed	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 combed	nsubj
4	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thought	advcl
5	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hair	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Gerda	case
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 combed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 combed	punct
9	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 thought	nsubj
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 thought	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 less	cc
13	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 less	conj
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 Kay	case
15	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 thought	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 witch	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	23 witch	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 witch	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 witch	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 witch	det
23	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thought	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 witch	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 witch	cc
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 witch	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 witch	det
28	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 witch	amod
29	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 witch	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 enchanted	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 enchanted	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 enchanted	nsubj
33	only	only	ADV	_	34 enchanted	advmod
34	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thought	parataxis
35	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 enchanted	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 amuse	cc
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 amuse	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 amuse	mark
39	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 enchanted	conj
40	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 amuse	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 want	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 want	cc
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 want	nsubj
44	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 want	aux
45	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thought	ccomp
46	to	to	PART	_	47 keep	mark
47	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 want	xcomp
48	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 Gerda	amod
49	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 keep	obj
50	very	very	ADV	_	51 much	advmod
51	much	much	ADV	_	47 keep	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	comb	past	girl	Gerda's hair			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	think speech: other	past	Gerda			about Kay; less property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	is	past	the old woman			for a witch but a wicked witch	tree rules
4	enchant	past	girl		now		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	amuse	to-infinitive	girl not said here	girl	then		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer
6	want	past · do-support	girl				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	girl not said here	little Gerda			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=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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