Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 10

"Poor souls!" cried the cunning white witch; "would you not like to bring them their eyes again?

Who acts: Poor souls, you · What happens: cry, not like, bring · To what, where: cunning white witch, souls · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor souls, you), 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	_	3 souls	punct
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 souls	amod
3	souls	soul	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 souls	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 souls	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 witch	det
8	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 witch	amod
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 witch	amod
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 like	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 like	nsubj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 like	advmod
16	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 bring	mark
18	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 like	xcomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bring	obj
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bring	obj
22	again	again	ADV	_	18 bring	advmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Poor souls	the cunning white witch		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Topic
2	not like in a quote	would	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	bring not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	souls = soul	again	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination eye=Theme

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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