The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 60

As they drove along the road they met three witches; the first of them was blind, the second was hunchbacked, and the third had a large thorn in her throat.

Who acts: brothers, first, third · What happens: drive, meet, be, hunchback, have · To what, where: road, three witches, second, large thorn, throat

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, first, third), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 drove	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drove	nsubj
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 blind	advcl
4	along	along	ADP	_	6 road	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 met	nsubj
8	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 road	acl:relcl
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 witches	nummod
10	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 met	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 blind	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 first	det
13	first	first	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 blind	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 first	nmod
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 blind	cop
17	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hunchbacked	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 second	det
20	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 hunchbacked	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hunchbacked	aux:pass
22	hunchbacked	hunchback	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 blind	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 third	det
26	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 blind	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 thorn	det
29	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 thorn	amod
30	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 throat	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 throat	nmod:poss
33	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 blind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	past	brothers = brother		the road		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along road=Trajectory
2	meet	past	brothers = brother	three witches			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Co-Agent
3	is	past	the first of brothers			blind property	tree rules
4	hunchback	past · passive		the second			tree rules
5	have	past	the third	a large thorn	third's throat		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thorn=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 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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