The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 122

There she sat and wept, because she was so ugly that the cockchafer would have nothing to do with her; and yet she was the most beautiful creature imaginable, so soft and delicate, like the loveliest rose-leaf.

Who acts: THUMBELINA, cockchafer · What happens: sit, weep, be, have, do · To what, where: nothing

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, cockchafer), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 sat	expl
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wept	cc
5	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ugly	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 ugly	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ugly	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ugly	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 ugly	advmod
11	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wept	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 have	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cockchafer	det
14	cockchafer	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ugly	advcl
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 have	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 do	mark
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 nothing	acl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 do	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 imaginable	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 imaginable	cc
24	yet	yet	ADV	_	31 imaginable	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 imaginable	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 imaginable	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 creature	det
28	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	29 beautiful	advmod
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 creature	amod
30	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 imaginable	obl:unmarked
31	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sat	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 soft	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 soft	advmod
34	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sat	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 delicate	cc
36	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 soft	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 leaf	punct
38	like	like	ADP	_	43 leaf	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 leaf	det
40	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Sup	43 leaf	amod
41	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 leaf	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 rose	punct
43	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	THUMBELINA		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	weep	past	THUMBELINA not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	THUMBELINA				ugly property	tree rules
4	have	would	the cockchafer	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	do	to-infinitive	the cockchafer not said here	nothing not said here			with THUMBELINA	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	THUMBELINA			yet	the beautiful creature obl:unmarked; imaginable 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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