The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 116

Later on, all the other cockchafers who lived in the same tree came to pay calls; they examined Thumbelina closely, and remarked, ‘Why, she has only two legs!

Who acts: other cockchafers, calls, THUMBELINA · What happens: live, come, pay, examine, remark, have · To what, where: same tree, calls, Thumbelina, two legs

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 (other cockchafers, calls, 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	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 came	advmod
2	on	on	ADV	_	1 Later	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Later	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 cockchafers	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cockchafers	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cockchafers	amod
7	cockchafers	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 came	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cockchafers	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tree	amod
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	obl
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 pay	mark
16	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 came	xcomp
17	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pay	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 examined	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 examined	nsubj
20	examined	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	conj
21	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 examined	obj
22	closely	closely	ADV	_	20 examined	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 remarked	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 remarked	cc
25	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 came	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Why	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 Why	punct
28	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	25 remarked	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 has	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 has	nsubj
31	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 came	conj
32	only	only	ADV	_	33 two	advmod
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 legs	nummod
34	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 has	obj
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	all other cockchafers		the same tree		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location
2	come	past	all other cockchafers			late property	tree rules
3	pay	to-infinitive	all other cockchafers not said here	calls			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Asset
4	examine	past	calls = call	Thumbelina		closely property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thumbelina=Theme
5	remark speech: assert	participle	all other cockchafers not said here				vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	have	present	THUMBELINA	two legs			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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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