The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 102
When they saw her, they thought her so pretty that they were very sorry she should go down with the ugly toad to live.
Who acts: fishes, THUMBELINA · What happens: see, think, be, go down, live · To what, where: THUMBELINA
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 (fishes, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | advcl |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | obj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 sorry | advmod |
| 10 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 15 sorry | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 sorry | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sorry | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sorry | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 sorry | advmod |
| 15 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 go | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | aux |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sorry | ccomp |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 go | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 toad | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 toad | det |
| 22 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 toad | amod |
| 23 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 live | mark |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 toad | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | fishes = fish | THUMBELINA | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | fishes = fish | THUMBELINA | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | fishes = fish | pretty, sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go down | should | THUMBELINA | with the ugly toad; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | live | to-infinitive | THUMBELINA not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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