The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 24
But the old woman was a witch, and she said to the girl, ‘There comes one out of the wood who has a wonderful treasure in his body which we must manage to possess ourselves of, darling daughter; we have more right to it than he.
Who acts: old woman, woman, wood, wonderful treasure, we · What happens: be, say, come, have, manage, possess · To what, where: witch, girl, one, wonderful treasure, body, ourselves · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman, wood, wonderful treasure), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 witch | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 witch | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 witch | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 witch | det |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 witch | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 girl | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 comes | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 comes | punct |
| 17 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 comes | expl |
| 18 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 comes | obl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 wood | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 wood | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wood | det |
| 23 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 one | nmod |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 has | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 wood | acl:relcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 treasure | det |
| 27 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 treasure | amod |
| 28 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 has | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 body | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 body | nmod:poss |
| 31 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 treasure | nmod |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 manage | nsubj |
| 33 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 manage | nsubj |
| 34 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 manage | aux |
| 35 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 treasure | acl:relcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 possess | mark |
| 37 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 manage | xcomp |
| 38 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 possess | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 possess | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 darling | punct |
| 41 | darling | darl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 possess | advcl |
| 42 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 darling | obj |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 have | punct |
| 44 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 have | nsubj |
| 45 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 witch | parataxis |
| 46 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 47 right | amod |
| 47 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 have | xcomp |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 it | case |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 right | obl |
| 50 | than | than | ADP | _ | 51 he | case |
| 51 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 right | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 witch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the old woman | a witch | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | woman | the girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to girl=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come | present | woman not said here | one out the wood | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | have | present | the wood | a wonderful treasure | Hunter's body | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Patient | |||
| 5 | manage | must | a wonderful treasure | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | possess | to-infinitive | a wonderful treasure not said here | ourselves | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ourselves=Theme | ||||
| 7 | darl | gerund | a wonderful treasure not said here | daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | have | present | we | right property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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