The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 15

Then she bade them hide themselves next morning, as soon as Iwanich was asleep, in the King’s hen-house, which stood on a lonely part of the heath, and to remain there till she called.

Who acts: witch, hen house · What happens: bade, hide, be, stand, remain, call · To what, where: horses, hen house, lonely part · Speech: someone speaks here

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, hen house), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bade	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bade	nsubj
3	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bade	obj
5	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bade	xcomp
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 hide	obj
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 morning	amod
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hide	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asleep	punct
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 soon	advmod
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 asleep	advmod
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 Iwanich	case
13	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 asleep	obl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 asleep	cop
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bade	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 house	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	23 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 King	det
19	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 house	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 King	case
21	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 house	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 hen	punct
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asleep	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stood	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 stood	nsubj
26	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 house	acl
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 part	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 part	det
29	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 part	amod
30	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stood	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 heath	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 heath	det
33	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 part	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 remain	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 remain	cc
36	to	to	PART	_	37 remain	mark
37	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bade	conj
38	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 remain	advmod
39	till	till	SCONJ	_	41 called	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 called	nsubj
41	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 remain	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bade	past	witch	horses = horse		then		tree rules
2	hide	infinitive	witch not said here	horses = horse		morning		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
3	is	past			the King's hen house		as Iwanich; asleep, soon property	tree rules
4	stand	past	the King's hen house		a lonely part of the heath			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on part=Location
5	remain	to-infinitive	witch not said here		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	call	past	witch					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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