The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 75

‘She is never to be seen at all!’ they told him; ‘she lives in a great copper castle, surrounded by many walls and towers!

Who acts: Princess, Witch · What happens: not be, tell, live, surround · To what, where: Witch, all, soldier, great copper castle · 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 (Princess, Witch), 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	_	7 seen	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seen	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 seen	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 seen	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	7 seen	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 seen	aux:pass
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 told	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 seen	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 seen	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 seen	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 lives	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 lives	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lives	nsubj
18	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 told	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 castle	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 castle	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 castle	amod
22	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 castle	compound
23	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lives	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 surrounded	punct
25	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 castle	acl
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 walls	case
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 walls	amod
28	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 surrounded	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 towers	cc
30	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 walls	conj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is not said to happen	present · passive		Witch		all	see property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	Princess		soldier			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	live	present	Witch			a great copper castle		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location
4	surround	participle		a great copper castle not said here			by many walls and towers	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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