The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 124

She plaited a bed for herself of blades of grass, and hung it up under a clover-leaf, so that she was protected from the rain; she gathered honey from the flowers for food, and drank the dew on the leaves every morning.

Who acts: THUMBELINA · What happens: plait, hang up, protect, gather, drink · To what, where: bed, clover leaf, THUMBELINA, honey, flowers, dew

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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 plaited	nsubj
2	plaited	plait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bed	det
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plaited	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 blades	case
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 blades	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 blades	case
8	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 plaited	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 grass	case
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blades	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hung	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hung	cc
13	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 plaited	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hung	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 hung	compound:prt
16	under	under	ADP	_	20 leaf	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 leaf	det
18	clover	clover	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 leaf	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 clover	punct
20	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hung	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 protected	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 protected	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 protected	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 protected	aux:pass
26	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 hung	conj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 rain	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rain	det
29	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 protected	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 gathered	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 gathered	nsubj
32	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 plaited	conj
33	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gathered	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 flowers	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 flowers	det
36	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 gathered	obl
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 food	case
38	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 flowers	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 drank	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 drank	cc
41	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 plaited	parataxis
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 dew	det
43	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 drank	obj
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 leaves	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 leaves	det
46	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 drank	obl
47	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	48 morning	det
48	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 drank	obl:unmarked
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 plaited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plait	past	THUMBELINA	a bed			for blades of grass	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient
2	hang up	past		bed	a clover leaf			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under leaf=Destination
3	protect	past · passive		THUMBELINA			from the rain	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from rain=Theme
4	gather	past	THUMBELINA	honey	the flowers for food			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent honey=Theme from flower=Source
5	drink	past		the dew	the leaves	morning		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dew=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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