The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 168

But Thumbelina could not sleep that night; so she got out of bed, and plaited a great big blanket of straw, and carried it off, and spread it over the dead bird, and piled upon it thistle-down as soft as cotton-wool, which she had found in the field-mouse’s room, so that the poor little thing should lie warmly buried.

Who acts: Thumbelina, poor little thing · What happens: not sleep, get out, plait, carry off, spread, pile · To what, where: bed, great big blanket, blanket, thistle, cotton wool, room

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, poor little thing), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 sleep	cc
2	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sleep	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sleep	advmod
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	obl:unmarked
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 got	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 got	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sleep	parataxis
12	out	out	ADP	_	14 bed	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 bed	case
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 plaited	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 plaited	cc
17	plaited	plait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 got	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 blanket	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 blanket	amod
20	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 blanket	amod
21	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 plaited	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 straw	case
23	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blanket	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 carried	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 carried	cc
26	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 plaited	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 carried	obj
28	off	off	ADP	_	26 carried	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 spread	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 spread	cc
31	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 carried	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 spread	obj
33	over	over	ADP	_	36 bird	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bird	det
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bird	amod
36	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spread	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 piled	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 piled	cc
39	piled	pile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 carried	parataxis
40	upon	upon	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 piled	obl
42	thistle	thistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 piled	obj
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 down	punct
44	down	down	ADV	_	46 soft	advmod
45	as	as	ADV	_	46 soft	advmod
46	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 thistle	amod
47	as	as	ADP	_	50 wool	case
48	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 wool	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 cotton	punct
50	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 soft	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 found	punct
52	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 found	nsubj:pass
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 found	nsubj
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 found	aux
55	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 wool	acl:relcl
56	in	in	ADP	_	62 room	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 mouse	det
58	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 mouse	compound
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 field	punct
60	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 room	nmod:poss
61	’s	's	PART	_	60 mouse	case
62	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 found	obl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 lie	punct
64	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	71 lie	mark
65	that	that	SCONJ	_	64 so	fixed
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 thing	det
67	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 thing	amod
68	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 thing	amod
69	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 lie	nsubj
70	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	71 lie	aux
71	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 piled	conj
72	warmly	warmly	ADV	_	73 buried	advmod
73	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	71 lie	advcl
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	could	Thumbelina			night		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get out	past	THUMBELINA	bed				tree rules
3	plait	past	THUMBELINA not said here	a great big blanket of straw				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanket=Patient
4	carry off	past	THUMBELINA not said here	blanket				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	spread	past	THUMBELINA not said here	blanket			over the dead bird	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over bird=Destination
6	pile	participle		thistle	blanket			vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thistle=Theme upon it=Destination
7	find	past · perfect · passive		cotton wool	the field mouse's room			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
8	lie	should	the poor little thing					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	bury	participle	the poor little thing not said here				warmly property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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