The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 72

So when the witch came up to it on her broom she found that there was nothing for it but to turn round and go back to her hut.

Who acts: witch, nothing · What happens: come up, find, be, turn round, go back · To what, where: broom · 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, nothing), 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	_	5 came	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 broom	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 broom	nmod:poss
11	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 was	mark
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 was	expl
16	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 found	ccomp
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 was	nsubj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 nothing	nmod
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 turn	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 turn	mark
22	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 found	conj
23	round	round	ADV	_	22 turn	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 go	cc
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 turn	conj
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 go	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 hut	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hut	nmod:poss
29	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 back	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	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	find	past	witch	witch's broom		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	be	past	nothing	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	turn round	to-infinitive	witch not said here		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	go back	infinitive	witch not said here			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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