The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 165

‘Perhaps it was he that sang to me so prettily in the summer,’ she thought.

Who acts: feather, THUMBELINA · What happens: be, think · To what, where: me

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 (feather, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 sang	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	7 sang	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sang	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sang	cop
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sang	nsubj
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 sang	nsubj
7	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 sang	obl
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 prettily	advmod
11	prettily	prettily	ADV	_	7 sang	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 summer	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 summer	det
14	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sang	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sang	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 sang	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thought	nsubj
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sang	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	feather		me		summer	perhaps, prettily, sing property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	THUMBELINA						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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