The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 100

Then they took the neat little cradle and swam away with it; but Thumbelina sat alone on the great green leaf and wept, for she did not want to live with the clammy toad, or marry her ugly son.

Who acts: Croak, Thumbelina · What happens: take, swim away, sit, weep, not want, live · To what, where: neat little cradle, great green leaf, ugly son

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Croak, Thumbelina), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cradle	det
5	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cradle	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cradle	amod
7	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 swam	cc
9	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 swam	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 swam	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 sat	cc
15	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
17	alone	alone	ADV	_	16 sat	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	22 leaf	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 leaf	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 leaf	amod
21	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 leaf	amod
22	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wept	cc
24	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sat	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 want	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 want	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 want	nsubj
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 want	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 want	advmod
30	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wept	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 live	mark
32	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 want	xcomp
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 toad	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 toad	det
35	clammy	clammy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 toad	amod
36	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 live	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 marry	punct
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 marry	cc
39	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 want	conj
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 son	nmod:poss
41	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 son	amod
42	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 marry	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Croak	the neat little cradle		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cradle=Theme
2	swim away	past	Croak not said here				with cradle; away property	vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with it=Theme
3	sit	past	Thumbelina		the great green leaf		alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leaf=Location
4	weep	past	Thumbelina not said here					tree rules
5	not want	past · do-support	THUMBELINA					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	live not said to happen	to-infinitive	THUMBELINA not said here				with the clammy toad	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with toad=Location
7	marry	infinitive	THUMBELINA not said here	THUMBELINA's ugly son				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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