The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 115

But the cockchafer did not trouble himself about that; he sat down with her on a large green leaf, gave her the honey out of the flowers to eat, and told her that she was very pretty, although she wasn’t in the least like a cockchafer.

Who acts: cockchafer, THUMBELINA · What happens: do, sit down, give, eat, tell, be · To what, where: trouble, large green leaf, honey, THUMBELINA, flowers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (cockchafer, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 did	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cockchafer	det
3	cockchafer	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 trouble	advmod
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	6 trouble	nmod:unmarked
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 trouble	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 sat	compound:prt
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sat	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	20 leaf	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 leaf	det
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 leaf	amod
19	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 leaf	amod
20	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gave	iobj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 honey	det
25	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obj
26	out	out	ADP	_	29 flowers	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 flowers	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 flowers	det
29	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gave	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 eat	mark
31	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 flowers	acl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 told	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 told	cc
34	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 told	iobj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 pretty	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 pretty	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 pretty	cop
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 pretty	advmod
40	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 told	ccomp
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 least	punct
42	although	although	SCONJ	_	48 least	mark
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 least	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 least	cop
45	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 least	advmod
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 least	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 least	det
48	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 told	obl
49	like	like	ADP	_	51 cockchafer	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 cockchafer	det
51	cockchafer	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 least	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the cockchafer	trouble cockchafer			about that	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality
2	sit down	past	cockchafer			a large green leaf	with THUMBELINA	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leaf=Location
3	give	past	cockchafer not said here	the honey	THUMBELINA	the flowers		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient honey=Theme
4	eat	to-infinitive	cockchafer not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	past	cockchafer not said here		THUMBELINA			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	is	past	THUMBELINA				pretty property	tree rules
7	not is	past	THUMBELINA				like a cockchafer; least 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.

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