The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 24
‘See that you do it well, then,’ growled the witch.
Who acts: you · What happens: see, do, growl · To what, where: ceiling, witch · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you), 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 | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 2 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 See | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 do | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 growled | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 growled | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 growled | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 growled | punct |
| 12 | growled | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 See | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 witch | det |
| 14 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 growled | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | present | you | ceiling | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | growl | past | you not said here | the witch | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Topic |
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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