The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 69

So one day she went to an old Witch and said to her: ‘I should so much like to have a tiny, little child; can you tell me where I can get one?’

Who acts: woman, I, you · What happens: go, say, have, tell, get · To what, where: woman, tiny little child, me, 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, I, you), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 Witch	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Witch	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Witch	amod
9	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADV	_	22 have	advmod
20	like	like	SCONJ	_	22 have	mark
21	to	to	PART	_	22 have	mark
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 child	det
24	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 child	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tiny	punct
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 child	amod
27	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 tell	punct
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 tell	aux
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 tell	nsubj
31	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	parataxis
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 tell	iobj
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 get	advmod
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 get	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 get	aux
36	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 tell	advcl
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 get	obj
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 tell	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	woman			day	to a old Witch	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to witch=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	woman not said here		woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
3	have	should	I	a tiny little child				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	can	you		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	get	can	I	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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