The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 35

The maiden had to get hold of it secretly and then swallow it herself, for the old witch wanted to have it.

Who acts: maiden, old witch · What happens: have, get, swallow, want, hold · To what, where: hold, maiden

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 (maiden, old witch), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hold	nmod
9	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 swallow	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 swallow	advmod
12	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 get	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 swallow	obj
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 swallow	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wanted	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 wanted	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 witch	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 witch	amod
19	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wanted	nsubj
20	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 swallow	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 have	mark
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wanted	xcomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 have	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the maiden				tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	the maiden not said here	hold of maiden		secretly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
3	swallow	infinitive	the maiden not said here	maiden	then		tree rules
4	want	past	the old witch				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old witch not said here	maiden			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	hold			maiden			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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