The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 18

So next morning she went again to the flowery meadow and sought the witch in her hut, and told her of her grief.

Who acts: wife · What happens: go, seek, tell · To what, where: flowery meadow, witch, hut, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wife), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 meadow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 meadow	det
9	flowery	flowery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 meadow	amod
10	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sought	cc
12	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 witch	det
14	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sought	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 hut	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hut	nmod:poss
17	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sought	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	iobj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 grief	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 grief	nmod:poss
24	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	wife			the flowery meadow	again; morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meadow=Initial_Location
2	seek	past	wife not said here	the witch		wife's hut			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent witch=Theme in hut=Location
3	tell speech: assert	past	wife not said here		wife			of wife's grief	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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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