The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 140
And Thumbelina did all that the kind old field-mouse asked, and did it remarkably well too.
Who acts: Thumbelina, kind old field mouse · What happens: do, ask · To what, where: all, mouse
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, kind old field mouse), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 did | cc |
| 2 | Thumbelina | Thumbelina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 did | obl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 asked | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mouse | det |
| 7 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mouse | amod |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mouse | amod |
| 9 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mouse | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 field | punct |
| 11 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 did | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 did | cc |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 did | obj |
| 17 | remarkably | remarkably | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 15 did | advmod |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 remarkably | fixed |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 did | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Thumbelina | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the kind old field mouse | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | past | Thumbelina not said here | mouse | remarkably property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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