The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 47
When Iwanich asked what his work, and how much his wages would be, the witch bade him follow her, and led the way through a narrow damp passage into a vault, which served as a stable.
Who acts: Iwanich, vault · What happens: ask, be, follow, lead, serve, work · To what, where: witch bade, way, narrow damp passage
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 (Iwanich, vault), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | Iwanich | Iwanich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 work | nmod:poss |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 what | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 much | cc |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 asked | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wages | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 be | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 be | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 much | cop |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 follow | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bade | det |
| 17 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bade | compound |
| 18 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 follow | obl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 follow | nsubj |
| 20 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 follow | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 led | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 led | cc |
| 24 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 way | det |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 led | obj |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 31 passage | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 passage | det |
| 29 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 passage | amod |
| 30 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 passage | amod |
| 31 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 led | obl |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 vault | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 vault | det |
| 34 | vault | vault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 passage | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 served | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 served | nsubj |
| 37 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 vault | acl:relcl |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 stable | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 stable | det |
| 40 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 served | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Iwanich | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | Iwanich not said here | much property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | present | Iwanich | the witch bade | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lead | past | Iwanich not said here | the way | a narrow damp passage into a vault | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme through passage=Destination | |||
| 5 | serve | past | a vault | as a stable | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as stable=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | work | Iwanich | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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