The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 39

‘I would gladly stay with you longer,’ said Militza, ‘but a wicked witch once cut off a lock of my hair when I was asleep, which has put me in her power, and if morning were still to find me here she would do me some harm, and you, too, perhaps.’

Who acts: I, Militza, girl · What happens: stay, say, cut off, be, put, find · To what, where: wicked witch, me, power, harm · 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 (I, Militza, girl), 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 stay	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 stay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	aux
4	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	5 stay	advmod
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 stay	obl
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 stay	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stay	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 stay	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Militza	Militza	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cut	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 cut	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 cut	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 witch	det
17	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 witch	amod
18	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cut	nsubj:pass
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 cut	advmod
20	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	parataxis
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 cut	compound:prt
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 lock	det
23	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cut	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 hair	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hair	nmod:poss
26	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lock	nmod
27	when	when	SCONJ	_	30 asleep	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 asleep	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 asleep	cop
30	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cut	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 put	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 put	nsubj:pass
33	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 put	aux
34	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 asleep	conj
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 put	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 power	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 power	nmod:poss
38	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 do	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 do	cc
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 find	mark
42	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 find	obl:unmarked
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 find	aux
44	still	still	ADV	_	46 find	advmod
45	to	to	PART	_	46 find	mark
46	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 do	advcl
47	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 find	obj
48	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 find	advmod
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 do	nsubj
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 do	aux
51	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
52	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 do	iobj
53	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	54 harm	det
54	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 do	obj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 you	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 you	cc
57	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 do	advcl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 you	punct
59	too	too	ADV	_	51 do	advmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 perhaps	punct
61	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	51 do	advmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 do	punct
63	’	'	PUNCT	_	51 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	I					with you; gladly, long property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Militza						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cut off	participle · passive		a wicked witch				once property	tree rules
4	is	past	I					asleep property	tree rules
5	put	present · perfect · passive			me	girl's power			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset i=Goal
6	find a condition, not said to happen	past	girl not said here	me		here	still; morning		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic
7	do	would	girl	some harm	me			perhaps property	tree rules

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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