The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 81

When the old witch heard of the fine salad she wanted to eat it, and said, ‘Dear countryman, just let me taste the wonderful salad.’

Who acts: old witch, witch, fine salad, me · What happens: hear, want, eat, say, let, taste · To what, where: fine salad, salad, me, wonderful salad · 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, witch, fine salad, me), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heard	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 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 salad	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 salad	det
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 salad	amod
9	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wanted	nsubj
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 salad	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 eat	mark
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wanted	xcomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eat	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 countryman	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 countryman	punct
20	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 countryman	amod
21	countryman	countryman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
23	just	just	ADV	_	24 let	advmod
24	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 countryman	appos
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 let	obj
26	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 salad	det
28	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 salad	amod
29	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taste	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 countryman	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 countryman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	participle	the old witch		of the fine salad	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of salad=Stimulus
2	want	past	witch	the fine salad not said here		tree rules
3	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	the fine salad not said here	salad		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	the old witch not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	let	infinitive		me		tree rules
6	taste	infinitive	me not said here	the wonderful salad		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme salad=Attribute

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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