English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 40
Childe Wynd stayed his hand, but he did not know what to think if some witchery were not in it.
Who acts: Childe, witchery · What happens: stay, not know, think, not be · To what, where: hand, witchery · 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 (Childe, witchery), 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 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | Wynd | Wynd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Childe | flat |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 know | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stayed | conj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 think | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 think | mark |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 know | ccomp |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 it | mark |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 witchery | det |
| 17 | witchery | witchery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 it | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 it | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 it | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 think | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | Childe | Childe's hand | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hand=Location | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | Childe | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | not is a condition, not said to happen | past | some witchery | witchery | tree rules |
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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