The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 44

The next day the same thing happened, but on the third morning one bird said to the other, ‘To-day we must go to the spring to see the Witch-maiden wash her face.’

Who acts: next day, one bird, we · What happens: happen, say, go, see, wash · To what, where: face · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next day, one bird, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 happened	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 happened	nsubj
7	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 morning	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morning	det
12	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 morning	amod
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 bird	nummod
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 happened	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 other	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 other	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
22	To	to	ADP	_	24 day	case
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 To	punct
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 go	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 go	aux
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 spring	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 spring	det
30	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 see	mark
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 go	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 maiden	det
34	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 maiden	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 Witch	punct
36	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 see	ccomp
37	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 maiden	conj
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 face	nmod:poss
39	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 wash	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	the next day				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	one bird		morning	to the other	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to other=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	go	must	we		day; spring		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	we not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	wash	infinitive	we not said here	help's face			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient

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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