The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 146
But Thumbelina did not trouble her head about him, for he was only a mole.
Who acts: Thumbelina, neighbour · What happens: do, be · To what, where: trouble
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, neighbour), 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 | But | but | 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 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 trouble | advmod |
| 5 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mole | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 mole | case |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 mole | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 mole | cop |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 mole | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mole | det |
| 16 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | vocative |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Thumbelina | trouble | about neighbour | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | neighbour | for a mole | 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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