The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 41

The witch pretended to be much astonished at his request, and said that he deserved something much better than the foal, for the beast was lazy and nervous, blind in one eye, and, in short, was quite worthless.

Who acts: witch, Iwanich, beast · What happens: pretend, astonish, say, deserve, be, request · To what, where: request, something, one eye, short · 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, Iwanich, beast), 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	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pretended	nsubj
3	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 astonished	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 astonished	aux:pass
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 astonished	advmod
7	astonished	astonish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pretended	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 request	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 request	nmod:poss
10	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 astonished	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pretended	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 deserved	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 deserved	nsubj
16	deserved	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 deserved	obj
18	much	much	ADV	_	19 better	advmod
19	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 deserved	advmod
20	than	than	ADP	_	22 foal	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 foal	det
22	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 better	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lazy	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 lazy	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 beast	det
26	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lazy	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 lazy	cop
28	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 nervous	cc
30	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lazy	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 blind	punct
32	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lazy	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 eye	case
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 eye	nummod
35	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 blind	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 worthless	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 worthless	cc
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 and	punct
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 short	case
40	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 worthless	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 short	punct
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 worthless	cop
43	quite	quite	ADV	_	44 worthless	advmod
44	worthless	worthless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pretended	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	the witch				tree rules
2	astonish	to-infinitive · passive	the witch not said here		Iwanich's request		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	say speech: assert	past	the witch not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	deserve	past	Iwanich	something		well property	tree rules
5	is	past	the beast			lazy property	tree rules
6	be		the beast not said here				tree rules
7	be		the beast not said here		one eye		tree rules
8	is	past	the witch not said here		short	worthless property	tree rules
9	request		Iwanich				nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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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