The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 120

The cockchafer who had stolen her knew this very well; but when he heard all the ladies saying she was ugly, he began to think so too, and would not keep her; she might go wherever she liked.

Who acts: cockchafer, THUMBELINA · What happens: steal, know, hear, say, be, begin · To what, where: THUMBELINA, this, ladies · 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cockchafer	det
2	cockchafer	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knew	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 stolen	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stolen	aux
5	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 cockchafer	acl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 stolen	obj
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 knew	obj
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 well	advmod
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 knew	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 heard	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	nsubj
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 began	advcl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 ladies	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ladies	det
18	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 heard	obj
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 heard	advcl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ugly	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ugly	cop
22	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 saying	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 began	nsubj
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knew	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 think	mark
27	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 too	advmod
29	too	too	ADV	_	27 think	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 keep	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 keep	cc
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 keep	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 keep	advmod
34	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 think	conj
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 keep	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 go	punct
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 go	nsubj
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 go	aux
39	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 knew	conj
40	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	42 liked	advmod
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 liked	nsubj
42	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 go	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	steal	past · perfect	the cockchafer	THUMBELINA		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location her=Theme
2	know	past	the cockchafer	this	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
3	hear	past	cockchafer	all ladies		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	gerund	cockchafer not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	THUMBELINA		ugly property	tree rules
6	begin	past	cockchafer			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	think speech: other	to-infinitive	cockchafer not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	not keep	would	cockchafer not said here	THUMBELINA		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
9	go	might	THUMBELINA			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	like	past	THUMBELINA		wherever property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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