The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 136

Poor little Thumbelina went up to the door and begged for a little piece of barley, for she had not had anything to eat for the last two days.

Who acts: Poor little Thumbelina, THUMBELINA · What happens: go up, beg, not have, eat · To what, where: anything

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 (Poor little Thumbelina, 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Thumbelina	amod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Thumbelina	amod
3	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 begged	cc
10	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 piece	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 piece	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 piece	amod
14	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 begged	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 barley	case
16	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 piece	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 had	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 had	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 had	advmod
22	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 begged	conj
23	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 had	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 eat	mark
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 anything	acl
26	for	for	ADP	_	30 days	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 days	det
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 days	amod
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 days	nummod
30	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 eat	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	Poor little Thumbelina			to the door	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	beg speech: request	participle	Poor little Thumbelina not said here			for a little piece of barley	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for piece=Topic
3	not have	past · perfect	THUMBELINA	anything			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
4	eat	to-infinitive	THUMBELINA not said here	anything not said here	day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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