The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 20
The Witch came right up to the Queen, took the child from her and laid it on the deck; then she took the Queen, and stripped her of all her fine clothes, which she proceeded to put on herself, and looked then like a human being.
Who acts: Witch, Queen, fine clothes · What happens: come, take, lay, strip, proceed, put · To what, where: child, deck, Queen
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Witch, Queen, fine clothes), 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 | 2 Witch | det |
| 2 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | right | right | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 Queen | case |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Queen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 laid | cc |
| 16 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 laid | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 deck | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 deck | det |
| 20 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laid | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 took | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 took | nsubj |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Queen | det |
| 26 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stripped | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 stripped | cc |
| 29 | stripped | strip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 took | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 stripped | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 clothes | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 clothes | det |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 34 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 clothes | amod |
| 35 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 29 stripped | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 proceeded | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 proceeded | nsubj |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 proceeded | nsubj |
| 39 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 put | mark |
| 41 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 proceeded | xcomp |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 herself | case |
| 43 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 put | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 looked | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 looked | cc |
| 46 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 took | conj |
| 47 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 looked | advmod |
| 48 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 50 human | mark |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 human | det |
| 50 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 looked | advcl |
| 51 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 50 human | advcl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Witch | up the Queen; right property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up queen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the Witch not said here | the child | from Queen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent child=Theme from she=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | lay | past | the Witch not said here | child | the deck | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on deck=Destination | |||
| 4 | take | past | Queen | the Queen | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument queen=Destination | |||
| 5 | strip | past | Queen not said here | Queen | of Queen's fine clothes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Theme of clothes=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | proceed | past | Queen's fine clothes | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | put | to-infinitive | Queen's fine clothes not said here | on Queen | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on herself=Destination | ||||
| 8 | look | past | Queen not said here | then | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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