The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 28

The witch at once recognised them by their smell, and ground her teeth with anger; but she hid her feelings, and, pretending to be very kind she called them to her and joked with them, and led them into a beautiful room, where she gave them food to eat, and showed them a soft cushion on which they might sleep.

Who acts: witch, creatures · What happens: recognise, hide, pretend, be, call, joke · To what, where: creatures, feelings, mother, beautiful room, food, soft cushion · 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 (witch, creatures), 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	5 recognised	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 recognised	obl
5	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 recognised	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 smell	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 smell	nmod:poss
9	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recognised	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 teeth	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 teeth	cc
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 teeth	compound
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 teeth	nmod:poss
14	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 recognised	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 anger	case
16	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 teeth	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 hid	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 hid	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hid	nsubj
20	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 recognised	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 feelings	nmod:poss
22	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hid	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pretending	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pretending	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pretending	punct
26	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 hid	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	30 kind	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 kind	cop
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 kind	advmod
30	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pretending	xcomp
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 called	nsubj
32	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 kind	acl:relcl
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 called	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 called	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 joked	cc
37	joked	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 called	conj
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 joked	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 led	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 led	cc
42	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 recognised	conj
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 led	obj
44	into	into	ADP	_	47 room	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 room	det
46	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 room	amod
47	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 led	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 gave	punct
49	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	51 gave	advmod
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 gave	nsubj
51	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 room	acl:relcl
52	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 gave	iobj
53	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 gave	obj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 eat	mark
55	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 food	acl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 showed	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 showed	cc
58	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 led	conj
59	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 showed	obj
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 cushion	det
61	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 cushion	amod
62	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 showed	obj
63	on	on	ADP	_	64 which	case
64	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	67 sleep	obl
65	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 sleep	nsubj
66	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	67 sleep	aux
67	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 cushion	acl:relcl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 recognised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	recognise	past	the witch	creatures = creature			by creatures's smell; witch's ground teeth with anger obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	hide	past	witch	witch's feelings				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient
3	pretend	gerund	witch not said here					tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	witch not said here				kind property	tree rules
5	call	past	witch	creatures = creature	mother			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to she=Recipient
6	joke speech: other	past	witch not said here				with creatures = creature	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent
7	lead	past	the witch not said here	creatures = creature		a beautiful room		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into room=Destination
8	give	past	witch	food	creatures = creature			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient food=Theme
9	eat	to-infinitive	witch not said here	food not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	show	past	the witch not said here	creatures = creature				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient cushion=Topic
11	sleep	might	creatures = creature			a soft cushion		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	smell		creatures = creature					nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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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