The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 56

The King and Queen embraced each other, and she told him the whole story--how the Witch came to the ship when they were all asleep and sent her off in the boat.

Who acts: King, Queen, Witch · What happens: embrace, tell, come, be, send off · To what, where: each, whole story, shaking, ship, Witch, boat · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (King, Queen, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 embraced	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Queen	cc
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 King	conj
5	embraced	embrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 embraced	obj
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 embraced	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 story	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 story	amod
15	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obj
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 came	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Witch	det
19	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 story	acl:relcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 ship	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ship	det
23	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 asleep	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 asleep	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 asleep	cop
27	all	all	ADV	_	28 asleep	advmod
28	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 told	ccomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sent	cc
30	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 embraced	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sent	obj
32	off	off	ADP	_	30 sent	compound:prt
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 boat	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 boat	det
35	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sent	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 embraced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	embrace	past	the King and Queen	each				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	Queen	the whole story	shaking			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
3	come	past	the Witch			the ship		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ship=Initial_Location
4	is	past	King				all, asleep property	tree rules
5	send off	past	the King and Queen not said here	Witch		the boat		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in boat=Destination

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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