The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 130
She wrapt herself round in a dead leaf, but it was torn in the middle and gave her no warmth; she was trembling with cold.
Who acts: THUMBELINA · What happens: wrapt, tear, give, tremble · To what, where: THUMBELINA, dead leaf, flake, middle, warmth
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 wrapt | nsubj |
| 2 | wrapt | wrapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 wrapt | obj |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 wrapt | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 leaf | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 leaf | det |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 leaf | amod |
| 8 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrapt | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 torn | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 torn | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 torn | aux:pass |
| 13 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wrapt | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 middle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 middle | det |
| 16 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 torn | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 torn | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | iobj |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 warmth | det |
| 21 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 trembling | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 trembling | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 trembling | aux |
| 25 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 wrapt | advcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 cold | case |
| 27 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 trembling | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wrapt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrapt | past | THUMBELINA | THUMBELINA | a dead leaf | round property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | tear | past · passive | flake | the middle | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | no warmth | THUMBELINA | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient warmth=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tremble | past · progressive | THUMBELINA | with cold | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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