The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 45

Then the cat thanked them for the ham, and gave them a pocket-handkerchief and a comb, and told them that when the witch pursued them, as she certainly would, all they had to do was to throw the handkerchief on the ground and run as fast as they could.

Who acts: cat, witch, wrens · What happens: thank, give, tell, pursue, have, do · To what, where: wrens, pocket handkerchief, handkerchief, ground · 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 (cat, witch, wrens), 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 thanked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thanked	nsubj
4	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thanked	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 ham	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ham	det
8	ham	ham	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thanked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gave	cc
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thanked	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	iobj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 handkerchief	det
14	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 handkerchief	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 pocket	punct
16	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 comb	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 comb	det
19	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 handkerchief	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thanked	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 pursued	mark
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 pursued	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 witch	det
27	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pursued	nsubj
28	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 told	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 pursued	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 all	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 would	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 would	nsubj
33	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	34 would	advmod
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 all	aux
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 would	punct
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 pursued	conj
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 all	acl:relcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 do	mark
40	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 had	xcomp
41	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 all	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 throw	mark
43	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 was	xcomp
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 handkerchief	det
45	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 throw	obj
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 ground	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 ground	det
48	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 handkerchief	nmod
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 run	cc
50	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 throw	conj
51	as	as	ADV	_	52 fast	advmod
52	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	50 run	advmod
53	as	as	SCONJ	_	55 could	mark
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 could	nsubj
55	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 fast	advcl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the cat		wrens = wren		then	for the ham	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for ham=Attribute
2	give	past	the cat not said here	a pocket handkerchief and a comb	wrens = wren				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient handkerchief=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	the cat not said here		wrens = wren				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	pursue	past	the witch	wrens = wren					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	have	past	wrens = wren						tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive	wrens = wren not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	be	past	the witch not said here						tree rules
8	throw	to-infinitive	the witch not said here	the handkerchief		the ground			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme on ground=Destination
9	run	present	the witch not said here					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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