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English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 47

When he reached the keep, he went off to the witch queen's bower, and when he saw her, he touched her with a twig of a rowan tree.

Who acts: Childe · What happens: reach, go off, see, touch · To what, where: keep, queen

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), 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

marknsubjadvcldetobjpunctnsubjcompound:prtcasedetcompoundnmod:posscaseoblpunctccadvmodnsubjadvclobjpunctnsubjconjobjcasedetoblcasedetcompoundnmodpunctrootWhenSCONJhePRONreachedVERBtheDETkeepNOUN,PUNCThePRONwentVERBoffADPtoADPtheDETwitchNOUNqueenNOUN'sPARTbowerNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVhePRONsawVERBherPRON,PUNCThePRONtouchedVERBherPRONwithADPaDETtwigNOUNofADPaDETrowanNOUNtreeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenSCONJ_3 reachedmark
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 reachednsubj
3reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 wentadvcl
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 keepdet
5keepkeepNOUNNumber=Sing3 reachedobj
6,,PUNCT_3 reachedpunct
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 wentnsubj
8wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9offoffADP_8 wentcompound:prt
10totoADP_15 bowercase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 queendet
12witchwitchNOUNNumber=Sing13 queencompound
13queenqueenNOUNNumber=Sing15 bowernmod:poss
14's'sPART_13 queencase
15bowerbowerNOUNNumber=Sing8 wentobl
16,,PUNCT_24 touchedpunct
17andandCCONJ_24 touchedcc
18whenwhenADVPronType=Int20 sawadvmod
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 sawnsubj
20sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 touchedadvcl
21hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 sawobj
22,,PUNCT_20 sawpunct
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 touchednsubj
24touchedtouchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 wentconj
25hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 touchedobj
26withwithADP_28 twigcase
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 twigdet
28twigtwigNOUNNumber=Sing24 touchedobl
29ofofADP_32 treecase
30aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 treedet
31rowanrowanNOUNNumber=Sing32 treecompound
32treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing28 twignmod
33..PUNCT_8 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reachpastChildethe keepvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent keep=Theme
2go offpastChildeto the witch queen's bowervn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3seepastChildequeenvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4touchpastChildequeenwith a twig of a rowan treevn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Experiencer with twig=Instrument

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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