The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 119

‘How ugly she is!’ said all the lady chafers--and yet Thumbelina was really very pretty.

Who acts: Thumbelina · What happens: be, say · To what, where: lady chafers · 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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 ugly	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 ugly	advmod
3	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 is	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ugly	cop
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 ugly	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 ugly	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 chafers	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chafers	det
11	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chafers	compound
12	chafers	chafer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obj
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 pretty	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pretty	cc
15	yet	yet	ADV	_	16 Thumbelina	advmod
16	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 pretty	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 pretty	cop
18	really	really	ADV	_	19 very	advmod
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 pretty	advmod
20	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			ugly property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		all lady chafers		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent chafer=Topic
3	is	past	Thumbelina		pretty 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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