The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 82

So they went to the Witch’s cave, and found her there with her fifteen young sons, and asked her to help them to get to the mainland.

Who acts: plans · What happens: go, find, ask, help, get · To what, where: cave, Hadvor, plans

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plans), 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	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 cave	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Witch	det
6	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cave	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Witch	case
8	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 found	cc
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	obj
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 found	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	18 sons	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sons	nmod:poss
16	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 sons	nummod
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sons	amod
18	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 found	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 asked	cc
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asked	iobj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 help	mark
24	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 asked	xcomp
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 help	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 get	mark
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 help	xcomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 mainland	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mainland	det
30	mainland	mainland	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 get	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	plans = plan			the Witch's cave		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location
2	find	past	plans = plan not said here	Hadvor		there	with Hadvor's fifteen young sons	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	past	plans = plan not said here		Hadvor			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	plans = plan not said here	plans = plan				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	plans = plan not said here				to the mainland result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mainland=Result

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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