The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 175
But she took courage, piled up the down more closely over the poor swallow, fetched her own coverlid and laid it over his head.
Who acts: THUMBELINA · What happens: take, pile up, fetch, lay · To what, where: courage, poor swallow, own coverlid, coverlid, head
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 piled | punct |
| 6 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 piled | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 took | obj |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 closely | advmod |
| 11 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 swallow | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 swallow | det |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 swallow | amod |
| 15 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fetched | punct |
| 17 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 coverlid | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 coverlid | amod |
| 20 | coverlid | coverlid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fetched | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 laid | cc |
| 22 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fetched | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 laid | obj |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 head | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 laid | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | THUMBELINA | courage | the poor swallow | closely property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument courage=Theme the=Destination | ||
| 2 | pile up | participle | THUMBELINA not said here | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fetch | past | THUMBELINA's own coverlid | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coverlid=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lay | past | coverlid | thing's head | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over head=Destination |
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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