The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 85

The old witch came out of her house and called to him, for she would gladly have cast her spells on him too, but he took care not to go near her, and called out: ‘Restore my brother to life at once, or I’ll shoot you down on the spot.’

Who acts: old witch, witch, son, I · What happens: come out, call, cast, take, care, not go · To what, where: house, son, spells, brother, life, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old witch, witch, son, I), 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	3 witch	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 witch	amod
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 house	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 house	nmod:poss
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 called	cc
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 called	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cast	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 cast	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cast	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 cast	aux
17	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	19 cast	advmod
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 cast	aux
19	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 called	conj
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 spells	nmod:poss
21	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cast	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cast	obl
24	too	too	ADV	_	19 cast	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 took	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 took	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 took	nsubj
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
29	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 took	ccomp
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 go	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 go	mark
32	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 care	ccomp
33	near	near	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 go	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 called	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 called	cc
37	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	conj
38	out	out	ADP	_	37 called	compound:prt
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 Restore	punct
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	41 Restore	punct
41	Restore	restore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 brother	nmod:poss
43	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Restore	obj
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 life	case
45	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Restore	obl
46	at	at	ADP	_	47 once	case
47	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	41 Restore	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 shoot	punct
49	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 shoot	cc
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 shoot	nsubj
51	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 shoot	aux
52	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 Restore	conj
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 shoot	obj
54	down	down	ADP	_	52 shoot	compound:prt
55	on	on	ADP	_	57 spot	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 spot	det
57	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 shoot	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 Restore	punct
59	’	'	PUNCT	_	41 Restore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come out	past	the old witch	witch's house				vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result
2	call	participle	the old witch not said here		son			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	cast	would · perfect	witch	witch's spells			on son; gladly property	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spell=Theme on he=Destination
4	take	past	son					vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
5	care	infinitive	son not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	not go	to-infinitive	son not said here				near witch	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near she=Location
7	call out speech: assert	participle	the old witch not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	restore	infinitive		my brother	life			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Theme to life=Recipient
9	shoot down	future	I	you		the spot		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent you=Theme on spot=Destination
10	spell		witch					nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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