The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 156
Thumbelina was very sorry, for she was very fond of all little birds; they had sung and twittered so beautifully to her all through the summer.
Who acts: Thumbelina · What happens: be, sing, twitter · To what, where: birds, THUMBELINA
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), 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 | 4 sorry | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorry | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 sorry | advmod |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fond | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 fond | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fond | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fond | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 fond | advmod |
| 10 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sorry | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 birds | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 birds | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 birds | amod |
| 14 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fond | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 sung | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sung | aux |
| 18 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sorry | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 twittered | cc |
| 20 | twittered | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sung | conj | |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 beautifully | advmod |
| 22 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 20 twittered | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 twittered | obl |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 summer | advmod |
| 26 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 summer | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 summer | det |
| 28 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 twittered | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Thumbelina | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | THUMBELINA | of all little birds; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past · perfect · passive | birds = bird | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | past | THUMBELINA | summer | beautifully property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to 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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