The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 61

When the witch saw that the children had escaped her, she was furious, and, hitting the cat with a porringer, she said: ‘Why did you let the children leave the hut?

Who acts: witch, you, children · What happens: see, escape, be, hit, say, let · To what, where: children, cat, hut · 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, you, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 said	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 escaped	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 escaped	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 escaped	aux
9	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 saw	ccomp
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 escaped	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 furious	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 furious	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 furious	cop
14	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saw	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 and	punct
18	hitting	hit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 said	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cat	det
20	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hitting	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 porringer	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 porringer	det
23	porringer	porringer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hitting	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hitting	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 let	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 let	punct
29	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	32 let	advmod
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 let	aux
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 let	nsubj
32	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	ccomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 children	det
34	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 leave	nsubj
35	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 let	parataxis
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hut	det
37	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 leave	obj
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the witch			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	escape	past · perfect · passive		the children		tree rules
3	is	past	witch		furious property	tree rules
4	hit	gerund	witch not said here	the cat	with a porringer	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cat=Patient with porringer=Instrument
5	say speech: assert	past	witch			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	let	past · do-support	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
7	leave	present	the children	the hut		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=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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