The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 26

But their mother used to warn them not to stray too far, telling them that a wicked witch lived in the castle beyond the garden, adding, ‘She has ruined me, and she will do her best to ruin you.’

Who acts: mother, wicked witch, witch · What happens: use, warn, not stray, tell, live, add · To what, where: creatures, castle, me, best, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, wicked 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	_	4 used	cc
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 warn	mark
6	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 warn	obj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 stray	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stray	mark
10	stray	stray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 warn	xcomp
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 far	advmod
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 stray	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 telling	punct
14	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 warn	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 telling	iobj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 lived	mark
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 witch	det
18	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 witch	amod
19	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lived	nsubj
20	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 telling	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 castle	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 castle	det
23	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lived	obl
24	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	26 garden	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 garden	det
26	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 castle	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 adding	punct
28	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 telling	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ruined	punct
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 ruined	punct
31	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 ruined	nsubj
32	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 ruined	aux
33	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 adding	ccomp
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 ruined	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 do	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 do	cc
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 do	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 do	aux
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	parataxis
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 best	nmod:poss
41	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 do	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 ruin	mark
43	ruin	ruin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 best	csubj
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 ruin	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 do	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	39 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	past	creatures's mother					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive	creatures's mother not said here		creatures = creature			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not stray	to-infinitive	creatures's mother not said here				far property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	creatures's mother not said here		creatures = creature			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	live	past	a wicked witch			the castle beyond the garden		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location
6	add speech: assert	gerund	creatures's mother not said here					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	ruin	present · perfect	witch	me				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
8	do	future	witch	witch's best				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
9	ruin	to-infinitive		you				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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