The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 150

Thumbelina had to sing to him, so she sang ‘Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home!’ and other songs so prettily that the mole fell in love with her; but he did not say anything, he was a very cautious man.

Who acts: Thumbelina, mole, neighbour · What happens: have, sing, fly away, fall, not say, be · To what, where: neighbour, Lady bird, love, anything, cautious man · 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 (Thumbelina, mole, 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	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sing	mark
4	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sang	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 sang	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sang	nsubj
10	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 bird	punct
12	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 bird	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Lady	punct
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sang	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bird	punct
16	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bird	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 lady	punct
18	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bird	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fly	punct
20	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	parataxis
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 fly	advmod
22	home	home	ADV	_	20 fly	advmod
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 fly	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 fly	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 prettily	cc
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 songs	amod
27	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 prettily	nsubj
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 prettily	advmod
29	prettily	prettily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 fell	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 mole	det
32	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fell	nsubj
33	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 prettily	advcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 love	case
35	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fell	obl
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 her	case
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fell	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 say	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 say	cc
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 say	nsubj
41	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 say	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 say	advmod
43	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	parataxis
44	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	43 say	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 man	punct
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 man	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 man	cop
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 man	det
49	very	very	ADV	_	50 cautious	advmod
50	cautious	cautious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 man	amod
51	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 say	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Thumbelina					tree rules
2	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	Thumbelina not said here		neighbour			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	sing speech: express	past	THUMBELINA	Lady bird and lady bird				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme
4	fly away	infinitive					away, home property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall	past	the mole			love	with THUMBELINA	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location
6	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	neighbour	anything				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
7	is a	past	neighbour	a cautious man				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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