The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 14

The old witch was more disgusted than ever when she saw him appearing, and having set his supper before him she stole into the stables, and Iwanich heard her abusing the horses for not having hidden themselves better in the clouds.

Who acts: witch, Iwanich · What happens: disgust, see, appear, have, set, steal · To what, where: old witch, supper, stables, witch, horses, clouds

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, Iwanich), 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	3 witch	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 witch	amod
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 disgusted	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 disgusted	aux:pass
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 disgusted	advmod
6	disgusted	disgust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 disgusted	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 saw	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 disgusted	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 appearing	nsubj
13	appearing	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 saw	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 set	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 set	cc
16	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 set	reparandum
17	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 disgusted	parataxis
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 supper	nmod:poss
19	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 set	obj
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 set	obl
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stole	nsubj
23	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 set	parataxis
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 stables	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stables	det
26	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stole	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 heard	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 heard	cc
29	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 heard	nsubj
30	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 set	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 heard	obj
32	abusing	abuse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 heard	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 horses	det
34	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 abusing	obj
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 having	mark
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 having	advmod
37	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 abusing	advcl
38	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 having	xcomp
39	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 hidden	obj
40	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 having	advmod
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 clouds	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 clouds	det
43	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 having	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 disgusted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disgust	past · passive		the old witch				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	see	past	witch					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	appear	gerund	Iwanich					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	gerund						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	set	past		Iwanich's supper		before Iwanich		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent supper=Theme before he=Destination
6	steal	past	witch		the stables			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hear	past	Iwanich	witch				tree rules
8	abuse	gerund	witch not said here	the horses				vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
9	not have	gerund	witch not said here		the clouds		well property	tree rules
10	hide	participle	witch not said here	horses = horse				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient

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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