The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 177

There he was alive, but very weak; he could only open his eyes for a moment and look at Thumbelina, who was standing in front of him with a piece of rotten wood in her hand, for she had no other lantern.

Who acts: thing, Thumbelina · What happens: be, open, look, stand, have · To what, where: eyes, front, other lantern

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 (thing, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 alive	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 alive	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 alive	cop
4	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 weak	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 weak	cc
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 weak	advmod
8	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 alive	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 open	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 open	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 open	aux
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 open	advmod
13	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 weak	parataxis
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eyes	nmod:poss
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 open	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 moment	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 moment	det
18	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 open	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 look	cc
20	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 open	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 Thumbelina	case
22	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 look	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 standing	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 standing	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 standing	aux
26	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 Thumbelina	acl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 front	case
28	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 standing	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 front	nmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 piece	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 piece	det
33	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 standing	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 wood	case
35	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 wood	amod
36	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 piece	nmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 hand	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 hand	nmod:poss
39	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 standing	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 had	punct
41	for	for	ADP	_	43 had	case
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 had	nsubj
43	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 open	conj
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	46 lantern	det
45	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 lantern	amod
46	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 had	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 alive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	thing		there		alive property	tree rules
2	be		thing not said here					tree rules
3	open	could	thing	thing's eyes		moment		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
4	look	infinitive	thing not said here				at Thumbelina	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at thumbelina=Theme
5	stand	past · progressive	Thumbelina		front of thing		with a piece of rotten wood; in THUMBELINA's hand	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
6	have	past	THUMBELINA	no other lantern				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=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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