English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 31
So back they came to the queen witch, who knew not what to do.
Who acts: imps, queen witch · What happens: come, not know, do · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (imps, queen witch), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 back | advmod |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 witch | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 witch | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 witch | compound |
| 8 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 witch | acl:relcl |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 knew | advmod |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 do | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 knew | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | imps = imp | to the queen witch | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to witch=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not know | past | the queen witch | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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