The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 54
The witch stood at her door and received him kindly, and set a good meal before him.
Who acts: witch · What happens: stand, receive, set · To what, where: door, Iwanich, good meal
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 (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 | 2 witch | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 door | nmod:poss |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 received | cc |
| 8 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 received | obj |
| 10 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 8 received | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stood | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 meal | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 meal | amod |
| 16 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obj |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 set | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the witch | witch's door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | the witch not said here | Iwanich | kindly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | set | infinitive | the witch not said here | a good meal | before Iwanich | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meal=Theme before he=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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