The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 3

She could entice animals and birds to come to her, and then she would kill and cook them.

Who acts: woman · What happens: entice, come, kill, cook · To what, where: animals, woman

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 entice	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 entice	aux
3	entice	entice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 entice	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 birds	cc
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 animals	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 come	mark
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 entice	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 come	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kill	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 kill	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 kill	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 kill	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 kill	aux
16	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 entice	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cook	cc
18	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 kill	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cook	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 entice	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	entice	could	woman	animals and birds			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer
2	come	to-infinitive	woman not said here		woman		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
3	kill	would	woman			then	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	cook	infinitive	woman not said here	animals = animal			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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