The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 21
‘Who’s there?’ she snarled, in an awful voice, when she saw the children.
Who acts: witch · What happens: be, snarl, see · To what, where: awful voice, children
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 there | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 snarled | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 snarled | nsubj |
| 8 | snarled | snarl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 voice | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 voice | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 12 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 voice | amod |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 snarled | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 saw | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 snarled | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 children | det |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 saw | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 snarled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | snarl | past | witch | a awful voice | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past | witch | the children | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
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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