The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 58
And the witch returned to see how the children were getting on; and she crept up to the window, and whispered:
Who acts: witch, children · What happens: return, see, get on, creep up, whisper · To what, where: window · 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 (witch, children), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 returned | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 whispered | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 returned | advcl |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 getting | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 children | det |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 getting | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 getting | aux |
| 11 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 see | ccomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 getting | compound:prt |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 crept | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 crept | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 crept | nsubj |
| 16 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 crept | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 window | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 window | det |
| 20 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 crept | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 whispered | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 whispered | cc |
| 23 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the witch | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the witch not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get on | past · progressive | the children | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | creep up | past | witch | the window | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to window=Destination | ||||
| 5 | whisper speech: assert | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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