English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 11

That same night the queen, who was a noted witch, stole down to a lonely dungeon wherein she did her magic and with spells three times three, and with passes nine times nine she cast Princess Margaret under her spell.

Who acts: queen, same night · What happens: note, be, steal down, do, cast, spell · To what, where: noted witch, magic, Princess Margaret, spell

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, same night), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 night	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stole	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 queen	det
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 night	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 witch	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 witch	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 witch	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 witch	det
10	noted	note	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 witch	amod
11	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 queen	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
13	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 stole	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 dungeon	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dungeon	det
17	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dungeon	amod
18	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stole	obl
19	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	21 did	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 did	nsubj
21	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stole	parataxis
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 magic	nmod:poss
23	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 did	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 spells	cc
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 spells	case
26	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 magic	conj
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 times	nummod
28	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 did	obl:unmarked
29	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 times	flat
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 cast	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 cast	cc
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 passes	case
33	passes	pass	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 cast	obl
34	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 times	nummod
35	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 passes	conj
36	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 passes	nmod
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 cast	nsubj
38	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stole	conj
39	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Margaret	compound
40	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 cast	obj
41	under	under	ADP	_	43 spell	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 spell	nmod:poss
43	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cast	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	note	participle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the queen	a noted witch				tree rules
3	steal down	past	that same night and the queen				to a lonely dungeon; down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	past	queen	queen's magic and spells		time	wherein property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Eventuality
5	cast	past	queen	Princess Margaret	queen's spell		with passes nine and nine times	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent margaret=Theme under spell=Destination
6	spell		queen					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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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