The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 18

He said that he had watched by the trees all night, but in spite of it, and as if by magic, the beautiful trees had been robbed of all their fruit.

Who acts: gardener · What happens: say, watch, rob, spite · To what, where: beautiful trees, spite, fruit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gardener), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 watched	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 watched	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 watched	aux
6	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 watched	obl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watched	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 robbed	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 robbed	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 spite	case
15	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 robbed	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 spite	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 magic	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 magic	cc
20	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	23 magic	case
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 as	fixed
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 magic	case
23	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spite	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spite	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 trees	det
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 trees	amod
27	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 robbed	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 robbed	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 robbed	aux:pass
30	robbed	rob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 fruit	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 fruit	det:predet
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 fruit	nmod:poss
34	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 robbed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	gardener					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	watch	past · perfect	gardener			night	by the trees	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tree=Location
3	rob	past · perfect · passive		the beautiful trees	spite of fruit and magic		of trees's fruit	vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme of fruit=Source
4	spite			fruit				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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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