The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 64
Then the witch was furious with the watch-dog and with the birch-trees, because they had let the children pass.
Who acts: witch, children · What happens: be, let, pass · To what, where: children
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 furious | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 furious | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 furious | cop |
| 5 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 dog | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 8 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dog | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 watch | punct |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 furious | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 trees | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 trees | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trees | det |
| 14 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trees | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 birch | punct |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dog | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 let | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 let | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 let | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 let | aux |
| 21 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 furious | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 children | det |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 pass | nsubj |
| 24 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 let | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 furious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the witch | then | with the watch dog and the birch trees; furious property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | let | past · perfect · passive | children = child | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pass | present | the children | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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