The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 20

When they reached it they saw in front of them, in the thickest of the trees, a queer little hut, and when they looked into it, there lay the witch, with her head on the threshold of the door, with one foot in one corner and the other in the other corner, and her knees cocked up, almost touching the ceiling.

Who acts: grandchildren, knees · What happens: reach, see, look, lay, cock up, touch · To what, where: bottle, thickest, front, witch, threshold, ceiling

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 (grandchildren, knees), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	obj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 front	case
8	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 front	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thickest	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 thickest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thickest	det
14	thickest	thick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 saw	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 trees	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 trees	det
17	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 thickest	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hut	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hut	det
20	queer	queer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hut	amod
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hut	amod
22	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 trees	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 looked	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 looked	cc
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 looked	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 looked	nsubj
27	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
28	into	into	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 looked	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lay	punct
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 lay	advmod
32	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 saw	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 witch	det
34	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lay	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 head	punct
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 head	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 head	nmod:poss
38	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lay	obl
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 threshold	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 threshold	det
41	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lay	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 door	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 door	det
44	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 threshold	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 foot	punct
46	with	with	ADP	_	48 foot	case
47	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 foot	nummod
48	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lay	obl
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 corner	case
50	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 corner	nummod
51	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 foot	nmod
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 other	cc
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 other	det
54	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 corner	conj
55	in	in	ADP	_	58 corner	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 corner	det
57	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 corner	amod
58	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 other	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 cocked	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 cocked	cc
61	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 knees	nmod:poss
62	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 cocked	nsubj
63	cocked	cock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 lay	conj
64	up	up	ADP	_	63 cocked	compound:prt
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 touching	punct
66	almost	almost	ADV	_	67 touching	advmod
67	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	63 cocked	advcl
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 ceiling	det
69	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 touching	obj
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	grandchildren = grandchild	bottle			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	see	past	grandchildren = grandchild	the thickest	front of milk		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thick=Stimulus
3	look	past	grandchildren = grandchild			into bottle	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into it=Theme
4	lay	infinitive	grandchildren = grandchild not said here	the witch	the threshold of the door; there	with witch's head; with one foot in one corner	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent witch=Theme on threshold=Destination
5	cock up	participle	witch's knees				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	touch	gerund	witch's knees not said here	the ceiling		almost property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ceiling=Co-Theme

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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