The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 70

When the witch came up to it, it took her a long time before she found a place which she could ford over on her broom-stick; but at last she got across, and continued the chase faster than before.

Who acts: witch, it, place · What happens: come up, take, find, ford over, get, continue · To what, where: broom, witch, place, broom stick, last, chase

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, it, place), 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	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	advcl
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 found	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 found	nsubj
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 place	det
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 ford	nsubj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ford	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 ford	aux
23	ford	ford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 place	acl:relcl
24	over	over	ADV	_	23 ford	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	29 stick	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 stick	nmod:poss
27	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stick	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 broom	punct
29	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ford	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 got	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 got	cc
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 last	case
33	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 got	obl
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 got	nsubj
35	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
36	across	across	ADV	_	35 got	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 continued	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 continued	cc
39	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	parataxis
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 chase	det
41	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 continued	obj
42	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 continued	advmod
43	than	than	ADP	_	44 before	case
44	before	before	ADV	_	42 faster	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the witch			broom			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location
2	take	past	it		witch		time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
3	find	past	witch	a place					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic
4	ford over	could	a place			witch's broom stick		over property	tree rules
5	get	past	witch			last		across property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	continue	past		the chase				fast property	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent chase=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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