The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 15
Your step-mother is not sending you to her granny, but to a wicked witch who lives in that great gloomy wood.
Who acts: step mother, wicked witch · What happens: not send, live · To what, where: you, great gloomy wood
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (step mother, wicked witch), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mother | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 step | punct |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sending | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sending | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 sending | advmod |
| 7 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 sending | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 granny | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 granny | nmod:poss |
| 11 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sending | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 witch | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 witch | cc |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 witch | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 witch | det |
| 16 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 witch | amod |
| 17 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sending | obl |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lives | nsubj |
| 19 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 witch | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 wood | case |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 wood | nsubj |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wood | amod |
| 23 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wood | amod |
| 24 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lives | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sending | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not send | present · progressive | Your step mother | you | to mother's granny; to a wicked witch | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to granny=Destination | |||
| 2 | live | present | a wicked witch | great gloomy wood | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
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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