The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 36

‘Here it is,’ said the Witch, ‘and here is my blue-check apron.’

Who acts: rope · What happens: be, say, check · To what, where: Witch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rope), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Here	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Witch	det
9	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ‘	punct
11	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Witch	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 here	cc
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Here	conj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 apron	nmod:poss
16	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 apron	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 blue	punct
18	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 apron	compound
19	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Here	nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	rope		here property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the Witch and ‘		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent witch=Topic
3	check	infinitive				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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