The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 50

But now the old witch had through her caused the Hunter’s eyes to become heavy.

Who acts: old witch, witch · What happens: have, cause, become · To what, where: eyes

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, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 had	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 witch	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 witch	amod
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	through	through	SCONJ	_	9 caused	mark
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 caused	nsubj
9	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Hunter	det
11	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 eyes	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 Hunter	case
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 caused	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 become	mark
15	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 caused	advcl
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 become	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the old witch		now		tree rules
2	cause	past	witch	the Hunter's eyes			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition eye=Patient
3	become	to-infinitive	witch not said here			heavy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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