The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 188

Thumbelina wanted very much to fly far away into the green wood, but she knew that the old field-mouse would be sad if she ran away.

Who acts: Thumbelina, old field mouse · What happens: want, fly away, know, be, run away · To what, where: green wood · Speech: someone speaks here

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, old field mouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:3546): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	2 wanted	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fly	mark
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 fly	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 fly	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 wood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
11	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wood	amod
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fly	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knew	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 knew	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 sad	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mouse	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 mouse	amod
20	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mouse	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 field	punct
22	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sad	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 sad	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 sad	cop
25	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 knew	ccomp
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 ran	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ran	nsubj
28	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sad	advcl
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 ran	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	want	past	Thumbelina		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	fly away not said to happen	to-infinitive	Thumbelina not said here	into the green wood result; away, far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result
3	know	past	THUMBELINA		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	would	the old field mouse	sad property	tree rules
5	run away a condition, not said to happen	past	THUMBELINA	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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