The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 111

A great cockchafer came flying past; he caught sight of Thumbelina, and in a moment had put his arms round her slender waist, and had flown off with her to a tree.

Who acts: great cockchafer, cockchafer · What happens: come, fly, catch, put, fly off, sight · To what, where: sight, arms, 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 (great cockchafer, cockchafer), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cockchafer	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cockchafer	amod
3	cockchafer	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 came	xcomp
6	past	past	ADV	_	5 flying	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 caught	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 caught	nsubj
9	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
10	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caught	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Thumbelina	case
12	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sight	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 put	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 put	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 moment	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 moment	det
17	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obl
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 put	aux
19	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 caught	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 arms	nmod:poss
21	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 put	obj
22	round	round	ADP	_	25 waist	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 waist	nmod:poss
24	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 waist	amod
25	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 flown	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 flown	cc
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 flown	aux
29	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 came	parataxis
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 flown	compound:prt
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 flown	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 tree	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 tree	det
35	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flown	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a great cockchafer				tree rules
2	fly	gerund	a great cockchafer not said here			past property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch	past	cockchafer	sight of Thumbelina			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
4	put	past · perfect	cockchafer not said here	cockchafer's arms	moment	round leaf's slender waist	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal
5	fly off	past · perfect				with leaf; to a tree result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result
6	sight			Thumbelina			nom sight «cognition 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: «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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