The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 40

But if you would like to take service with the old witch Corva, go straight up the little stream which flows below my hut for about three hours, and you will come to a sand-hill on the left-hand side; that is where she lives.’

Who acts: you, little stream, that, Corva · What happens: like, take, go, flow, come, be · To what, where: service, little stream, hut, hand side

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, little stream, that, Corva), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 go	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 like	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 take	mark
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 like	xcomp
8	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 witch	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 witch	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 witch	amod
12	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obl
13	Corva	Corva	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 witch	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
15	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	straight	straight	ADV	_	20 stream	advmod
17	up	up	ADP	_	20 stream	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stream	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stream	amod
20	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 flows	nsubj
22	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 stream	acl:relcl
23	below	below	ADP	_	25 hut	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hut	nmod:poss
25	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flows	obl
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 hours	case
27	about	about	ADV	_	28 three	advmod
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 hours	nummod
29	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 flows	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 come	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 come	cc
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 come	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 come	aux
34	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	39 hill	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 hill	det
37	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hill	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 sand	punct
39	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 come	obl
40	on	on	ADP	_	45 side	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 side	det
42	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 hand	amod
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 left	punct
44	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 side	compound
45	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 come	obl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 where	punct
47	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 where	nsubj
48	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 where	cop
49	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	51 lives	advmod
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 lives	nsubj
51	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 go	advcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
53	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like a condition, not said to happen	would	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	service			with the old witch	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme
3	go	imperative	you not said here		the little stream			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up stream=Initial_Location
4	flow	present	the little stream		my hut	hour		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme below hut=Location
5	come	future	you		the hand side		to a sand hill	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location
6	is	present	that				where property	tree rules
7	live	present	Corva					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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