The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 196
‘Now you are to be a bride, Thumbelina!’ said the field-mouse, ‘for our neighbour has proposed for you!
Who acts: you, bride · What happens: be, say, propose · To what, where: bride, field mouse · 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 (you, bride), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 bride | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 bride | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 bride | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bride | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 bride | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 bride | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bride | det |
| 8 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Thumbelina | punct |
| 10 | Thumbelina | Thumbelina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bride | appos |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 Thumbelina | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Thumbelina | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mouse | det |
| 15 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mouse | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 field | punct |
| 17 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 proposed | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 proposed | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 neighbour | case |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 22 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 proposed | obl |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 proposed | aux |
| 24 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 proposed | obl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | a bride | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a bride | the field mouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic | ||||
| 3 | propose | present · perfect | a bride not said here | for our neighbour; for you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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