The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 59
The wicked witch your lives did take-- The wicked witch, the cunning snake.
Who acts: wicked witch · What happens: take · To what, where: wicked witch
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 (wicked 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 | 3 witch | det |
| 2 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 witch | amod |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | nsubj |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lives | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 witch | obj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 witch | det |
| 10 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 witch | amod |
| 11 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 snake | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 snake | det |
| 14 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 snake | compound |
| 15 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 witch | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · do-support | the wicked witch | the wicked witch and the cunning snake | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument witch=Destination |
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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