English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 44

But she sees a fairy baby playing with a wand, and overhears one of the fairies say: “Three strokes of that wand would make Kate's sick sister as bonnie as ever she was.”

Who acts: Kate, fairy baby, one, Three strokes · What happens: see, play, overhear, say, make, be · To what, where: fairy baby, sick sister, wand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kate, fairy baby, one, Three strokes), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 sees	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sees	nsubj
3	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 baby	det
5	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 baby	amod
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sees	obj
7	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 baby	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 wand	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wand	det
10	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 playing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 overhears	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 overhears	cc
13	overhears	overhear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sees	conj
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 say	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 fairies	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fairies	det
17	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 overhears	parataxis
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 make	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 make	punct
21	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 strokes	nummod
22	strokes	stroke	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 make	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 wand	case
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 wand	det
25	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 strokes	nmod
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 make	aux
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 say	ccomp
28	Kate	Kate	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 sister	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 Kate	case
30	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sister	amod
31	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	obj
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 bonnie	case
33	bonnie	bonnie	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	obl
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 was	mark
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	37 was	advmod
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 was	nsubj
37	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 make	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 overhears	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 sees	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Kate	a fairy baby			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baby=Stimulus
2	play	gerund	a fairy baby not said here			with a wand	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wand=Theme
3	overhear	present	Kate not said here				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	present	one of the fairies				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	make in a quote	would	Three strokes of that wand	Kate's sick sister		as bonnie	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sister=Product
6	be in a quote	past	Kate		ever		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	stroke in a quote			that wand			nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient

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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