The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 45

The woman came up to the nurse, took the child from her, and pressed it to her breast; then she gave it back to the nurse and returned by the same way as she had come, and the floor closed over her again.

Who acts: woman, floor · What happens: come up, take, press, give back, return, come · To what, where: nurse, child

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 (woman, floor), 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 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 nurse	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nurse	det
7	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 child	det
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pressed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pressed	cc
16	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pressed	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 breast	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 breast	nmod:poss
20	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pressed	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 gave	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 gave	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 gave	nsubj
24	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 gave	obj
26	back	back	ADV	_	24 gave	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 nurse	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 nurse	det
29	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gave	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 returned	cc
31	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 gave	conj
32	by	by	ADP	_	35 way	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 way	det
34	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 way	amod
35	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 returned	obl
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 come	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 come	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 come	aux
39	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 returned	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 closed	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 closed	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 floor	det
43	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 closed	nsubj
44	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	parataxis
45	over	over	ADP	_	46 her	case
46	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 closed	obl
47	again	again	ADV	_	44 closed	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the woman			the nurse			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to nurse=Initial_Location
2	take	past	the woman not said here	the child				from woman	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent child=Theme from she=Initial_Location
3	press	past		child				to woman's breast	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	give back	past	woman	child	the nurse		then		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to nurse=Recipient
5	return	participle	woman not said here					by the same way	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	past · perfect	woman						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	close	participle	the floor				again	over woman	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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