The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 79

He crouched down in the doorway and heard the wicked witch telling the horses to wait next morning till Iwanich was asleep, and then to go and hide themselves in the river, and to stay there till she told them to return; and if they didn’t do as she told them the old woman threatened to beat them till they bled.

Who acts: Prince, wicked witch, Iwanich, witch, horses · What happens: crouch down, hear, tell, wait, be, go · To what, where: doorway, wicked witch, horses, river, old woman · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Prince, wicked witch, Iwanich, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crouched	nsubj
2	crouched	crouch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 crouched	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 doorway	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doorway	det
6	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crouched	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 heard	cc
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crouched	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 witch	det
10	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 witch	amod
11	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obj
12	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 heard	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horses	det
14	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 telling	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 wait	mark
16	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 telling	xcomp
17	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 morning	amod
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wait	obl:unmarked
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 asleep	mark
20	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 asleep	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 asleep	cop
22	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wait	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 go	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 go	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 go	mark
27	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hide	cc
29	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 go	conj
30	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 hide	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 river	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 river	det
33	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hide	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stay	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 stay	cc
36	to	to	PART	_	37 stay	mark
37	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 go	conj
38	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 stay	advmod
39	till	till	SCONJ	_	41 told	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 told	nsubj
41	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 stay	advcl
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 told	iobj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 return	mark
44	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 told	xcomp
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 do	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 do	cc
47	if	if	SCONJ	_	51 do	mark
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 do	nsubj
49	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 do	aux
50	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 do	advmod
51	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 crouched	conj
52	as	as	SCONJ	_	54 told	mark
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 told	nsubj
54	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 do	advcl
55	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 told	iobj
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 woman	det
57	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 woman	amod
58	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 told	obj
59	threatened	threaten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 woman	acl
60	to	to	PART	_	61 beat	mark
61	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 threatened	xcomp
62	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 beat	obj
63	till	till	SCONJ	_	65 bled	mark
64	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 bled	nsubj
65	bled	bleed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 beat	advcl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crouched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crouch down	past	Prince			the doorway			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in doorway=Location
2	hear	past	Prince not said here	the wicked witch					tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	the wicked witch not said here		the horses				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient clause=Topic
4	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive	the wicked witch not said here				morning		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	Iwanich					asleep property	tree rules
6	go	to-infinitive					then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hide	infinitive		horses = horse		the river			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in river=Location
8	stay	to-infinitive				there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	tell speech: assert	past	witch		horses = horse				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
10	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	witch not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	not do a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	horses = horse						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	tell speech: assert	past	witch	the old woman	horses = horse				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient woman=Topic
13	threaten	participle		the old woman not said here					tree rules
14	beat not said to happen	to-infinitive		horses = horse					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
15	bleed	past	horses = horse						vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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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