The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 174
Thumbelina trembled, she was so frightened; for the bird was very large in comparison with herself--only an inch high.
Who acts: Thumbelina, bird · What happens: tremble, be · To what, where: comparison
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, bird), 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 | 2 trembled | nsubj |
| 2 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 frightened | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 frightened | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 frightened | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 frightened | advmod |
| 7 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 trembled | parataxis |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 large | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 large | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 large | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 large | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 large | advmod |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 trembled | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 comparison | case |
| 16 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 large | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 herself | case |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 comparison | nmod |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 inch | punct |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 inch | advmod |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 inch | det |
| 22 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 large | conj |
| 23 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 inch | amod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | past | Thumbelina | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | THUMBELINA | frightened property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the bird | comparison with THUMBELINA | large property | tree rules |
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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