The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 195

The corn which had been sowed in the field over the field-mouse’s home grew up high into the air, and made a thick forest for the poor little girl, who was only an inch high.

Who acts: corn, poor little girl · What happens: sow, grow up, make, be · To what, where: corn, field, air, thick forest, inch

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 (corn, poor little girl), 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	2 corn	det
2	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grew	nsubj
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sowed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sowed	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 sowed	aux:pass
6	sowed	sow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 corn	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 field	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 field	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sowed	obl
10	over	over	ADP	_	16 home	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mouse	det
12	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mouse	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 field	punct
14	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 home	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 mouse	case
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sowed	obl
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 grew	compound:prt
19	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 grew	advmod
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 air	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 air	det
22	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grew	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 made	cc
25	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 grew	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 forest	det
27	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 forest	amod
28	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	33 girl	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 girl	det
31	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 girl	amod
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 girl	amod
33	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 inch	punct
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 inch	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 inch	cop
37	only	only	ADV	_	39 inch	advmod
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 inch	det
39	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 girl	conj
40	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 inch	amod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sow	past · perfect · passive		the corn	the field	over the field mouse's home	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in field=Destination
2	grow up	past	the corn			into the air result; high property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into air=Result
3	make	past	the corn not said here	a thick forest		for the poor little girl and a inch	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent forest=Product for girl=Beneficiary
4	is a	past	the poor little girl and a inch	a inch			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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