The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 184
The whole winter he remained down there, and Thumbelina looked after him and nursed him tenderly.
Who acts: whole winter, Thumbelina · What happens: remain down, look, nurse · To what, where: son
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 (whole winter, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 winter | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 winter | amod |
| 3 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remained | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 remained | nsubj |
| 5 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 remained | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 remained | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 10 | Thumbelina | Thumbelina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remained | parataxis |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 nursed | cc |
| 15 | nursed | nurse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 looked | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 nursed | obj |
| 17 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nursed | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain down | past | the whole winter | there | down property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | past | Thumbelina | after son | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | nurse | past | Thumbelina not said here | son | tenderly property | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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