The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 113

Oh, dear! how terrified poor little Thumbelina was when the cockchafer flew off with her to the tree!

Who acts: terrified poor little Thumbelina · What happens: be

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 (terrified poor little 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 dear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Thumbelina	parataxis
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 terrified	advmod
6	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Thumbelina	amod
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Thumbelina	amod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Thumbelina	amod
9	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 flew	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 flew	cop
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 flew	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cockchafer	det
13	cockchafer	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flew	nsubj
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 flew	compound:prt
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 flew	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 tree	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tree	det
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flew	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	terrified poor little Thumbelina					with leaf; to the tree; fly property	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/113/