The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 33

Then the mice told her that the witch had a cat, and the cat was very fond of ham; if she would give the cat her ham, it would show her the way out of the wood, and in the meantime they would spin the yarn for her.

Who acts: mice, witch, cat, girl · What happens: tell, have, be, give, show, spin · To what, where: girl, cat, ham, way, wood, yarn · 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 (mice, witch, cat, girl), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mice	det
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 witch	det
8	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cat	det
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fond	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fond	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cat	det
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fond	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fond	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 fond	advmod
18	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 ham	case
20	ham	ham	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fond	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 give	punct
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 give	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 give	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 give	aux
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cat	det
27	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obj
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 ham	nmod:poss
29	ham	ham	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 show	punct
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 show	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 show	aux
33	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 give	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 show	iobj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 way	det
36	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 show	obj
37	out	out	ADP	_	40 wood	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 wood	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 wood	det
40	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 way	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 spin	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 spin	cc
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 meantime	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 meantime	det
45	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 spin	obl
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 spin	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 spin	aux
48	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 give	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 yarn	det
50	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 spin	obj
51	for	for	ADP	_	52 her	case
52	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 spin	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the mice		girl		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	past	the witch	a cat					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient
3	is	past	the cat					of ham; fond property	tree rules
4	give a condition, not said to happen	would	girl	girl's ham	the cat				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient ham=Theme
5	show	would	cat	the way	girl	the wood			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient way=Topic
6	spin	would	mice = mouse	the yarn		the meantime		for girl	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent yarn=Result for she=Beneficiary

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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