The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 35

‘They are not asleep yet,’ muttered the witch to herself; and she walked up and down in the passage, and then came back to the door, and said:

Who acts: knives, witch · What happens: not be, mutter, walk, come back, say · To what, where: witch, passage, door · 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 (knives, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 asleep	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asleep	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 asleep	advmod
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 muttered	parataxis
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 asleep	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 asleep	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 asleep	punct
9	muttered	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 witch	det
11	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 muttered	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 herself	case
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 muttered	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 walked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 walked	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 walked	nsubj
17	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 muttered	parataxis
18	up	up	ADV	_	17 walked	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 down	cc
20	down	down	ADV	_	18 up	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 passage	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 passage	det
23	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walked	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 came	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 came	advmod
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 said	advcl
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 door	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 door	det
31	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 walked	conj
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 muttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	knives = knife				yet	asleep property	tree rules
2	mutter speech: assert	past		the witch	witch				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent witch=Topic to herself=Recipient
3	walk	past	witch			the passage			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in passage=Trajectory
4	come back	past				the door	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
5	say speech: assert	past	witch not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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