The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 73

‘Oh, thank you!’ said the woman, and gave the Witch a shilling, for that was what it cost.

Who acts: woman, that, shilling · What happens: thank, say, give, be, cost · To what, where: you, shilling, Witch · 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, that, shilling), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 thank	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thank	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Witch	det
15	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 shilling	det
17	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 what	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 what	case
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 what	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 what	cop
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 gave	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cost	nsubj
24	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 what	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present			you	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	past	the woman not said here	a shilling	the Witch	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent witch=Recipient shilling=Theme
4	is	past	that			tree rules
5	cost	past	shilling			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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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