The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 79
It must have been that old witch of a Birscha?
Who acts: question · What happens: be · To what, where: old witch
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (question), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 witch | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 witch | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 witch | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 witch | cop |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 witch | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 witch | amod |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Birscha | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Birscha | det |
| 10 | Birscha | Birscha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 witch | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 witch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must · perfect | question | that old witch | of a Birscha | tree rules |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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