The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 137
She is the worst witch that ever lived, and no iron can cut her.
Who acts: hag, worst witch, iron · What happens: be, live, cut · To what, where: worst witch, hag
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 (hag, worst witch, iron), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 witch | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 witch | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 witch | det |
| 4 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 witch | amod |
| 5 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 lived | advmod |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 witch | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cut | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cut | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 iron | det |
| 12 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cut | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 cut | aux |
| 14 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 witch | parataxis |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cut | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 witch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | hag | the worst witch | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the worst witch | ever | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut | can | no iron | hag | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |
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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