The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 138

Then the witch was terrified, and taking a young oak tree she burnt it into white ashes, and sprinkled the ashes on the stones that stood around.

Who acts: witch, woman, stones · What happens: be, take, burnt, sprinkle, stand around · To what, where: young oak tree, life, white ashes, ashes, stones

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, woman, stones), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 terrified	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 terrified	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 terrified	cop
5	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 taking	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 taking	cc
8	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 terrified	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tree	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tree	amod
11	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tree	compound
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taking	obj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 burnt	nsubj
14	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tree	acl:relcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 burnt	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 ashes	case
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ashes	amod
18	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 burnt	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sprinkled	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sprinkled	cc
21	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 terrified	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ashes	det
23	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sprinkled	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 stones	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stones	det
26	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sprinkled	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 stood	nsubj
28	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 stones	acl:relcl
29	around	around	ADV	_	28 stood	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 terrified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the witch			then	terrified property	tree rules
2	take	gerund	the witch not said here	a young oak tree				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
3	burnt	past	woman	life	white ashes			tree rules
4	sprinkle	past	the witch not said here	the ashes	the stones			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ash=Theme on stone=Destination
5	stand around	past	the stones				around property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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