The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 24

When the boat could no longer be seen the child began to cry, and though the Witch tried to quiet it she could not manage it; so she went below to where the King was sleeping with the child on her arm, and awakened him, scolding him for leaving them alone on deck, while he and all the crew were asleep.

Who acts: Witch, King, spell · What happens: see, begin, cry, try, quiet, not manage · To what, where: boat, arm, spell, King, deck

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, King, spell), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	8 seen	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boat	det
3	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seen	nsubj:pass
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	aux
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 longer	advmod
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 seen	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 seen	aux:pass
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 began	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seen	obj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 cry	mark
13	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tried	cc
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 tried	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Witch	det
18	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tried	nsubj
19	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 quiet	mark
21	quiet	quiet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 tried	xcomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 quiet	obj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 manage	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 manage	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 manage	advmod
26	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 quiet	ccomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 manage	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 went	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 went	advmod
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 went	nsubj
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	parataxis
32	below	below	ADV	_	31 went	advmod
33	to	to	SCONJ	_	38 sleeping	mark
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 sleeping	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 King	det
36	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 sleeping	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 sleeping	aux
38	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 went	advcl
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 child	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 child	det
41	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sleeping	obl
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 arm	case
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 arm	nmod:poss
44	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sleeping	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 awakened	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 awakened	cc
47	awakened	awaken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	parataxis
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 awakened	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 scolding	punct
50	scolding	scold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 awakened	advcl
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 scolding	obj
52	for	for	SCONJ	_	53 leaving	mark
53	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 scolding	advcl
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 leaving	obj
55	alone	alone	ADV	_	53 leaving	advmod
56	on	on	ADP	_	57 deck	case
57	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 leaving	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 asleep	punct
59	while	while	SCONJ	_	66 asleep	mark
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 asleep	nsubj
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 crew	cc
62	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	64 crew	det:predet
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 crew	det
64	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 he	conj
65	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 asleep	cop
66	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 awakened	advcl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	could · passive		the boat		long property	tree rules
2	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	to-infinitive					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	try	past	the Witch				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	quiet not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Witch not said here	boat			tree rules
6	not manage	could	Witch	boat			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	go	past	Witch			below property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	sleep	past · progressive	the King		Witch's arm	with the child	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	awaken	past		spell			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
10	scold	gerund		spell			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
11	leave	gerund		King	deck	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme on deck=Location
12	is	past	spell			asleep property	tree rules

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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