The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 164

Thumbelina did not say anything; but when the other two had passed on she bent down to the bird, brushed aside the feathers from his head, and kissed his closed eyes gently.

Who acts: Thumbelina · What happens: not say, pass, bend down, brush, kiss, close · To what, where: anything, other two, bird, closed eyes · 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), 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 say	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 say	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 passed	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 passed	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 passed	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 two	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 two	amod
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 passed	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 passed	aux
13	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 say	conj
14	on	on	SCONJ	_	16 bent	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bent	nsubj
16	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 passed	advcl
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 bent	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 bird	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bird	det
20	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bent	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 brushed	punct
22	brushed	brush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 bird	acl
23	aside	aside	ADP	_	25 feathers	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 feathers	det
25	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 brushed	obl
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 head	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 feathers	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 kissed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 kissed	cc
31	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	parataxis
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 eyes	nmod:poss
33	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 eyes	amod
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 kissed	obj
35	gently	gently	ADV	_	31 kissed	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	Thumbelina	anything		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
2	pass	past · perfect · passive		the other two		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
3	bend down	past	THUMBELINA		to the bird; down property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bird=Location
4	brush	participle		the bird not said here	aside the feathers from man's head	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	kiss	past		man's closed eyes	gently property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Co-Agent
6	close	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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