The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 107
The leaf floated farther and farther away; thus Thumbelina left her native land.
Who acts: leaf, Thumbelina · What happens: float, leave · To what, where: native land
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 (leaf, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 leaf | det |
| 2 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floated | nsubj |
| 3 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 floated | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 farther | cc |
| 6 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 farther | conj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 farther | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 left | punct |
| 9 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 11 left | advmod |
| 10 | Thumbelina | Thumbelina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 left | nsubj |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 floated | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 land | nmod:poss |
| 13 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 land | amod |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 floated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | past | the leaf | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | Thumbelina | leaf's native land | thus property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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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