The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 39

The old witch grew angry, and said, ‘Such a cloak is a wonderful thing, it is seldom to be had in the world, and have it I must and will.’

Who acts: old witch, cloak · What happens: grow, say, be, have · To what, where: wonderful thing, cloak, world · 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, cloak), 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	3 witch	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 witch	amod
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thing	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 thing	punct
11	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	13 cloak	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cloak	det
13	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thing	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 thing	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 thing	det
16	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thing	amod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 had	cop
21	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	24 had	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	24 had	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 had	aux:pass
24	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 thing	parataxis
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 world	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 world	det
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 have	cc
30	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	parataxis
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 have	obj
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 must	nsubj
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 have	advcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 will	cc
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 must	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the old witch			angry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the old witch not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	such cloak	a wonderful thing			tree rules
4	is	present · passive		cloak	the world	have, seldom property	tree rules
5	have	present		cloak			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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