The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 11

The witch counselled her to go to the pond the first time there was a full moon, and to comb her black hair with a golden comb, and then to place the comb on the bank.

Who acts: witch · What happens: counsell, go, comb · To what, where: wife, pond, black hair

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 counselled	nsubj
3	counselled	counsell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 counselled	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 counselled	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 pond	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pond	det
9	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl:unmarked
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 time	acl:relcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 moon	det
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 moon	amod
17	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 comb	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 comb	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 comb	mark
21	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hair	nmod:poss
23	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hair	amod
24	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 comb	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 comb	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 comb	det
27	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 comb	amod
28	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 comb	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 place	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 place	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 place	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 place	mark
33	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 counselled	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 comb	det
35	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 place	appos
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 bank	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bank	det
38	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 comb	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 counselled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	counsell	past	the witch	wife				tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	the witch not said here		the pond	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pond=Initial_Location
3	comb	to-infinitive	the witch not said here	wife's black hair			with a golden comb	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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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