The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 37
Then the old witch said, ‘We have the bird-heart, but we must also get the wishing-cloak from him.’
Who acts: old witch, We · What happens: say, have, get · To what, where: bird heart, wishing cloak · 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), 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 | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 8 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heart | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heart | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 bird | punct |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 get | cc |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 get | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 get | aux |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 get | advmod |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 have | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cloak | det |
| 21 | wishing | wishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cloak | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 wishing | punct |
| 23 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 get | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 get | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | 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 | present | We | the bird heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 3 | get | must | we | the wishing cloak | from Thenceforward | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme from he=Source |
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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