The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 128

Poor little Thumbelina! she would surely be frozen to death.

What happens: freeze · To what, where: Poor little Thumbelina

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: 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Thumbelina	amod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Thumbelina	amod
3	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 frozen	nsubj:pass
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Thumbelina	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 frozen	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 frozen	aux
7	surely	surely	ADV	_	9 frozen	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 frozen	aux:pass
9	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 death	case
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 frozen	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 frozen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	would · passive		Poor little Thumbelina				to death; surely property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

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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