The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 1
When the witch saw the Prince bringing the horses home she could hardly conceal her wrath, and as soon as she had placed Iwanich’s supper before him she stole away again to the stables.
Who acts: witch, Prince · What happens: see, bring, conceal, place, steal away · To what, where: Prince, horses home, wrath, supper
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, Prince), 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 | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 stole | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 home | det |
| 9 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 home | compound |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bringing | obj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 conceal | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 conceal | aux |
| 13 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 14 conceal | advmod |
| 14 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 home | acl:relcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 conceal | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 placed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 placed | cc |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 soon | advmod |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 placed | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 placed | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 placed | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 placed | aux |
| 24 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | conj |
| 25 | Iwanich | Iwanich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 supper | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Iwanich | case |
| 27 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 placed | obj |
| 28 | before | before | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 placed | obl |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 stole | nsubj |
| 31 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 stole | advmod |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 stole | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 stables | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 stables | det |
| 36 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 stole | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the witch | the Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | gerund | the Prince not said here | the horses home | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 3 | conceal | could | witch | witch's wrath | hardly property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrath=Patient | |||
| 4 | place | past · perfect | witch | Iwanich's supper | before Iwanich | soon property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent supper=Theme before he=Destination | ||
| 5 | steal away | past | witch | again | to the stables; away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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