The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 59

After a time she began to plan how to get her freedom, and at last told him that she would consent if he would allow her to visit her son on earth three days on end.

Who acts: Witch, shaking · What happens: begin, plan, get, tell, consent, allow · To what, where: freedom, shaking, last, Witch, son, earth · 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 (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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 plan	mark
7	plan	plan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 get	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 get	mark
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 plan	ccomp
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 freedom	nmod:poss
12	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 told	obl
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 consent	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 consent	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 consent	aux
22	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	xcomp
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 allow	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 allow	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 allow	aux
26	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 consent	advcl
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 allow	iobj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 visit	mark
29	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 allow	xcomp
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 son	nmod:poss
31	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 visit	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 earth	case
33	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 visit	obl
34	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 days	nummod
35	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 visit	obl:unmarked
36	on	on	ADP	_	37 end	case
37	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 visit	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	begin	past	Witch				time	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	plan	to-infinitive	Witch not said here					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	Witch not said here	Witch's freedom				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer freedom=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	past	Witch not said here		shaking	last		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	consent not said to happen	would	Witch					vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	allow a condition, not said to happen	would	shaking		Witch			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
7	visit not said to happen	to-infinitive	shaking not said here	Witch's son		earth	on end; day	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-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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