The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 136

‘Oh, she is with us,’ answered the wolf, ‘and she has changed herself into a she-wolf, and the foal into a cub; but strike the earth here with the halter, and cry, “Come to me, O mare of the mountain witch.”’

Who acts: mare, us · What happens: be, answer, change, strike, cry, come · To what, where: wolf, mare, she wolf, earth, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mare, us), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 us	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 us	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 us	cop
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 answered	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 us	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 us	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wolf	det
12	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
14	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	18 changed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 changed	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 changed	nsubj
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 changed	aux
18	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 answered	parataxis
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 changed	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	24 wolf	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 wolf	det
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wolf	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 she	punct
24	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 changed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 foal	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 foal	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 foal	det
28	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 changed	obl
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 cub	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 cub	det
31	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 foal	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 strike	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 strike	cc
34	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 earth	det
36	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 strike	obj
37	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 strike	advmod
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 halter	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 halter	det
40	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 strike	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 cry	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 cry	cc
43	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	34 strike	parataxis
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 Come	punct
45	“	"	PUNCT	_	46 Come	punct
46	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	43 cry	conj
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 me	case
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 Come	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 mare	punct
50	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	51 mare	case
51	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 Come	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	55 witch	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 witch	det
54	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 witch	compound
55	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 mare	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	43 cry	punct
57	”	"	PUNCT	_	43 cry	punct
58	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	mare				with us	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	us	the wolf				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wolf=Eventuality
3	change	present · perfect	mare	mare			into a she wolf result; the foal into a cub obl	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into wolf=Result
4	strike	present		the earth		here	with the halter	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent earth=Patient with halter=Instrument
5	cry speech: express	infinitive						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come in a quote	infinitive			me		of mare of the mountain witch	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location of mare=Destination

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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