The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 68

So the witch saw there was no help to be got from her old servants, and that the best thing she could do was to mount on her broom and set off in pursuit of the children.

Who acts: witch, help, best thing · What happens: see, be, get, do, set off, pursue · To what, where: old servants, best thing, broom, pursuit, children · 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, help, best thing), 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	So	so	ADV	_	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	root	root
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	ccomp
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 help	det
8	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	11 got	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 got	aux:pass
11	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 help	acl
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 servants	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 servants	nmod:poss
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 servants	amod
15	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 got	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 mount	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 mount	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 mount	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 thing	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 thing	amod
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mount	nsubj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 do	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 do	aux
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 thing	acl:relcl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 mount	cop
26	to	to	PART	_	27 mount	mark
27	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saw	conj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 broom	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 broom	nmod:poss
30	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mount	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 set	cc
32	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
33	off	off	ADP	_	32 set	compound:prt
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 pursuit	case
35	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 set	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 children	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 children	det
38	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 pursuit	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the witch				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	past	no help		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	to-infinitive · passive	no help not said here		help's old servants		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: from servant=Destination
4	do	could	witch	the best thing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
5	is	past	the best thing		help's broom	mount property	tree rules
6	set off	past	the witch not said here		pursuit of the children		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	pursue			the children			nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=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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