The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 114

But she was especially distressed on the beautiful white butterfly’s account, as she had tied him fast, so that if he could not get away he must starve to death.

Who acts: THUMBELINA, butterfly, beautiful white butterfly · What happens: distress, tie, not get away, starve, account · To what, where: THUMBELINA, account, butterfly

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 (THUMBELINA, butterfly, beautiful white butterfly), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 distressed	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 distressed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 distressed	aux:pass
4	especially	especially	ADV	_	5 distressed	advmod
5	distressed	distress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	12 account	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 butterfly	det
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 butterfly	amod
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 butterfly	amod
10	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 account	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 butterfly	case
12	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 distressed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tied	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 tied	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tied	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tied	aux
17	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 distressed	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tied	obj
19	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 tied	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 starve	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	_	31 starve	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 starve	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 get	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 get	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 get	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 get	advmod
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 starve	csubj
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 get	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 starve	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 starve	aux
31	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 tied	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 death	case
33	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 starve	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 distressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	distress	past · passive		THUMBELINA	the beautiful white butterfly's account	especially property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	tie	past · perfect	THUMBELINA	butterfly		fast property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	not get away a condition, not said to happen	could	butterfly			away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	starve	must	butterfly			to death	tree rules
5	account		the beautiful white butterfly				nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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