The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 28

In the meantime I will slip in among the hens through a hole in the wall and give them a good chase, so that the noise they make will arouse the royal henwives, and they will come to see what is the matter.

Who acts: I, hens, noise · What happens: slip in, give, make, arouse, come, see · To what, where: good chase, hens, noise, royal henwives, matter · 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 (I, hens, noise), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slip	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 slip	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 slip	aux
6	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 slip	advmod
8	among	among	ADP	_	10 hens	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hens	det
10	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 slip	obl
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 hole	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hole	det
13	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slip	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 wall	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wall	det
16	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hole	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 give	cc
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 slip	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 chase	det
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 chase	amod
22	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 arouse	punct
24	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	31 arouse	mark
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 so	fixed
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 noise	det
27	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 arouse	nsubj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 make	nsubj
29	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 noise	acl:relcl
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 arouse	aux
31	arouse	arouse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 give	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 henwives	det
33	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 henwives	amod
34	henwives	henwive	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 arouse	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 come	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 come	cc
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 come	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 come	aux
39	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 slip	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 see	mark
41	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 come	advcl
42	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	45 matter	nsubj
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 matter	cop
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 matter	det
45	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 see	ccomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 slip	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	slip in	future	I			among the hens; through a hole in the wall; in the meantime	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in meantime=Attribute
2	give	infinitive	I not said here	a good chase	hens = hen		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient chase=Theme
3	make	present	hens = hen	the noise not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product
4	arouse	future	the noise	the royal henwives			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus henwive=Experiencer
5	come	future	hens = hen				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	to-infinitive	hens = hen not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	present		the matter			tree rules

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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