The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 148
‘He is so rich and so accomplished,’ the field-mouse told her.
Who acts: neighbour, field mouse · What happens: be, accomplish, tell · To what, where: THUMBELINA · 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 (neighbour, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 rich | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rich | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rich | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 rich | advmod |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 accomplished | cc |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 accomplished | advmod |
| 8 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 rich | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 15 told | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mouse | det |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mouse | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 field | punct |
| 14 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | nsubj |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rich | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rich | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | neighbour | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accomplish | participle | neighbour not said here | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the field mouse | THUMBELINA | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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