The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 86

The witch said, ‘Get up before the cock crows, and watch carefully till you see something move, and then throw this cloth quickly over it, and you’ll see what will happen.’

Who acts: witch, you · What happens: say, get up, watch, see, throw, happen · To what, where: something move, cloth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Get	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 Get	punct
6	Get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 Get	compound:prt
8	before	before	ADP	_	11 crows	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 crows	det
10	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crows	compound
11	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Get	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 watch	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 watch	cc
14	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Get	conj
15	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	14 watch	advmod
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 see	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
18	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 watch	advcl
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 move	compound
20	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 throw	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 throw	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 throw	advmod
24	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Get	conj
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 cloth	det
26	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 throw	obj
27	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	24 throw	advmod
28	over	over	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 throw	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 see	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 see	cc
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 see	nsubj
33	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 see	aux
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 happen	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 happen	aux
37	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 see	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 see	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the witch					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get up	infinitive				before the cock crows		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	watch	infinitive					carefully property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	see	present	you	something move				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer move=Stimulus
5	throw	infinitive		this cloth	cloth	then	quickly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme over it=Destination
6	see	future	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	happen	future						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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