The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 51

In the morning the witch gave the girl two pieces of linen to weave before night, and the boy a pile of wood to cut into chips.

Who acts: witch, boy · What happens: give, weave, pile, cut · To what, where: two pieces, girl

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, boy), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 witch	det
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 pieces	nummod
10	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gave	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 linen	case
12	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pieces	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 weave	mark
14	weave	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 gave	advcl
15	before	before	ADP	_	16 night	case
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 weave	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pile	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pile	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boy	det
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pile	nsubj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pile	det
22	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 wood	case
24	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pile	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 cut	mark
26	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 pile	acl
27	into	into	ADP	_	28 chips	case
28	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 cut	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the witch	two pieces of linen	the girl	morning		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient piece=Theme
2	weave	to-infinitive	the witch not said here			night		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pile		the boy				of wood	tree rules
4	cut	to-infinitive	the witch not said here				into chips	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into chip=Patient

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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