The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 31
Then the old witch said, ‘Now we must have the bird-heart; he will not feel when it is gone.’
Who acts: old witch, we, Hunter, heart · What happens: say, have, not feel, be · To what, where: bird heart · 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 witch, we, Hunter, heart), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 witch | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 witch | amod |
| 4 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 8 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 have | advmod |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heart | det |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heart | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 bird | punct |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 feel | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 feel | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 feel | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 feel | advmod |
| 20 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | conj |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 gone | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gone | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 gone | cop |
| 24 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 feel | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old witch | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | must | we | the bird heart | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | |||
| 3 | not feel | future | Hunter | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | present | heart | gone property | tree rules |
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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