The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 40

She beat the maiden, and said that if she did not obey it would go ill with her.

Who acts: witch, cloak · What happens: beat, say, not obey, go · To what, where: maiden · 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 (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maiden	det
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beat	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beat	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 obey	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 obey	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 obey	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 obey	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 obey	advmod
13	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 obey	ccomp
17	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 go	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ill	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	beat	past	witch	the maiden		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maiden=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	witch not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not obey a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	witch			tree rules
4	go	would	cloak		ill property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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