The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 137

‘Poor little creature!’ said the field-mouse, for she was a kind-hearted old thing at the bottom.

Who acts: Poor little creature, creature · What happens: say, be · To what, where: field mouse, bottom · Speech: someone speaks here

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 creature, creature), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 creature	punct
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 creature	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 creature	amod
4	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 creature	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 creature	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mouse	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mouse	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 field	punct
11	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thing	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	21 thing	case
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thing	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thing	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 thing	det
17	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hearted	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 kind	punct
19	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thing	amod
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thing	amod
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 bottom	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bottom	det
24	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thing	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Poor little creature	the field mouse					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic
2	is	past	creature			the bottom		for a hearted old thing	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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