The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 68

There was once a woman who wanted to have quite a tiny, little child, but she did not know where to get one from.

Who acts: woman · What happens: be, want, have, not know, get · To what, where: tiny little child, one · 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 (woman), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 woman	det
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 woman	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 have	mark
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wanted	xcomp
10	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	15 child	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 child	det
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 child	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tiny	punct
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 child	amod
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 know	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 know	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 know	advmod
21	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	parataxis
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 get	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 get	mark
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 know	ccomp
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 get	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	24 get	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a woman		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	want	past	a woman				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	a woman not said here	quite tiny little child			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4	not know	past · do-support	woman				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	get	to-infinitive		one			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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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