The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 110

The old hag, who was the most frightful of them all, went first to taste the porridge.

Who acts: old hag · What happens: be, go, taste · To what, where: porridge

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old hag), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hag	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hag	amod
3	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 frightful	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 frightful	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 frightful	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 frightful	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 frightful	advmod
9	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hag	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 frightful	obl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 them	nmod:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hag	punct
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 went	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 taste	mark
17	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 went	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 porridge	det
19	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taste	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old hag		of trolls = troll; frightful property	tree rules
2	go	past	the old hag		first property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	taste	to-infinitive	the old hag not said here	the porridge		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme porridge=Attribute

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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