The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 151

A short time before he had dug a long passage through the ground from his own house to that of his neighbour; in this he gave the field-mouse and Thumbelina permission to walk as often as they liked.

Who acts: neighbour, songs · What happens: dig, give, walk, like · To what, where: long passage, field mouse, this

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, songs), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dug	obl:unmarked
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 dug	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dug	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dug	aux
7	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 passage	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 passage	amod
10	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dug	obj
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passage	nmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 house	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 house	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 house	amod
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dug	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 that	case
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 house	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 neighbour	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 neighbour	nmod:poss
22	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 that	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 gave	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 this	case
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 gave	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gave	nsubj
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dug	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mouse	det
29	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mouse	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 field	punct
31	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 permission	cc
33	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 permission	compound
34	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mouse	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 walk	mark
36	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 gave	advcl
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 often	advmod
38	often	often	ADV	_	36 walk	advmod
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 liked	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 liked	nsubj
41	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 often	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dug	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	past · perfect	neighbour	a long passage		time	from neighbour's own house to that; through the ground	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent passage=Instrument through ground=Patient
2	give	past	neighbour	the field mouse and Thumbelina permission	this			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
3	walk	to-infinitive	neighbour not said here				often property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	like	past	songs = song					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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