The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 58

The Giant wished her to marry him, but she refused; whereupon he shut her up by herself, and told her she would never get free until she consented.

Who acts: Giant, Witch, shaking · What happens: wish, marry, refuse, shut up, tell, not get · To what, where: Witch, shaking · 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 (Giant, Witch, shaking), 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 Giant	det
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wished	nsubj
3	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wished	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 marry	mark
6	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wished	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 marry	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 refused	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 refused	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 refused	nsubj
11	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wished	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 shut	punct
13	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	15 shut	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 shut	nsubj
15	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wished	parataxis
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 shut	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 shut	compound:prt
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 herself	case
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 shut	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wished	parataxis
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 get	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 get	aux
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 get	advmod
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 told	ccomp
28	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 get	xcomp
29	until	until	SCONJ	_	31 consented	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 consented	nsubj
31	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 get	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wish	past	the Giant	Witch			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
2	marry	to-infinitive	the Giant not said here	shaking			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	refuse	past	Witch				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	shut up	past	shaking	Witch		by Witch; whereupon property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	tell speech: assert	past			Witch		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6	not get	would	Witch			free property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	consent	past	Witch				vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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