The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 56

But the little sister tied the twigs together with a piece of ribbon, and they got past safely, and, after running through the wood, came out on to the open fields.

Who acts: little sister, twigs · What happens: tie, get past, run, come out · To what, where: twigs, wood

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 (little sister, twigs), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 tied	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sister	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sister	amod
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tied	nsubj
5	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 twigs	det
7	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tied	obj
8	together	together	ADV	_	5 tied	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 piece	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 piece	det
11	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tied	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 ribbon	case
13	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 piece	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 got	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 got	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 got	nsubj
17	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tied	conj
18	past	past	ADV	_	17 got	advmod
19	safely	safely	ADV	_	17 got	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 came	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 and	punct
23	after	after	SCONJ	_	24 running	mark
24	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 came	advcl
25	through	through	ADP	_	27 wood	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wood	det
27	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 running	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 running	punct
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tied	conj
30	out	out	ADV	_	31 on	advmod
31	on	on	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 fields	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fields	det
34	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fields	amod
35	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 came	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tie	past	the little sister	the twigs		with a piece of ribbon; together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent twig=Patient with piece=Co-Patient
2	get past	past	twigs = twig			past, safely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	run	gerund			the wood		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory
4	come out	past	the little sister not said here			to the open fields	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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