The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 58

The witch called the girl’s mother to her, and proposed that she should let her daughter come and live with her, and then she could eat as much parsley as she liked.

Who acts: witch, Parsley · What happens: call, propose, let, come, live, eat · To what, where: mother, witch, daughter, much parsley · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, Parsley), 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	12 proposed	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 witch	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mother	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 girl	case
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 proposed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 proposed	cc
12	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 let	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 let	aux
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	advcl
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 let	obj
19	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 proposed	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 live	cc
21	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 come	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 live	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 eat	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 eat	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 eat	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 eat	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 eat	aux
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	parataxis
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 parsley	amod
32	parsley	parsley	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 eat	obj
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 liked	mark
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 liked	nsubj
35	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 eat	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 proposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle	the witch not said here	the girl's mother	witch			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Topic to she=Recipient
2	propose	past	the witch					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	let	should	witch	daughter	mother			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient daughter=Theme
4	come	present	the witch not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	live	present	the witch not said here				with daughter	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location
6	eat	could	witch	much parsley		then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parsley=Patient
7	like	past	Parsley					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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