The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 84
The witch suspected no evil, and her mouth watered to taste the new dish, so that she went into the kitchen to prepare it herself.
Who acts: witch, mouth · What happens: suspect, water, taste, go, prepare · To what, where: evil, new dish, kitchen, dish
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, mouth), 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 | 2 witch | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suspected | nsubj |
| 3 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 evil | det |
| 5 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suspected | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 watered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 watered | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 watered | nsubj |
| 10 | watered | water | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 suspected | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 taste | mark |
| 12 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 watered | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dish | det |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dish | amod |
| 15 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taste | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 went | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 watered | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 kitchen | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kitchen | det |
| 23 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 prepare | mark |
| 25 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 went | advcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 prepare | obj |
| 27 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 prepare | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suspected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspect | past | the witch | no evil | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent evil=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | water | past | witch's mouth | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | taste | to-infinitive | witch's mouth not said here | the new dish | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme dish=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | go | past | witch | the kitchen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | prepare | to-infinitive | witch not said here | dish | witch obl | vn establish-55.5-1 «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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