The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 199

Thumbelina had to spin all day long, and every evening the mole visited her, and told her that when the summer was over the sun would not shine so hot; now it was burning the earth as hard as a stone.

Who acts: Thumbelina, mole, sun, dowry · What happens: have, spin, visit, tell, not be, burn · To what, where: THUMBELINA, earth · 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, mole, sun, dowry), 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	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 spin	mark
4	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spin	obl:unmarked
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 spin	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 visited	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 visited	cc
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 evening	det
11	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 visited	obl:unmarked
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mole	det
13	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 visited	nsubj
14	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 visited	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 shine	mark
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 shine	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 summer	det
23	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shine	obl:unmarked
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 shine	cop
25	over	over	SCONJ	_	30 shine	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sun	det
27	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shine	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 shine	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 shine	advmod
30	shine	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 told	xcomp
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 hot	advmod
32	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 shine	xcomp
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 burning	punct
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 burning	advmod
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 burning	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 burning	aux
37	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 told	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 earth	det
39	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 burning	obj
40	as	as	ADV	_	41 hard	advmod
41	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 burning	advmod
42	as	as	ADP	_	44 stone	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 stone	det
44	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 hard	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Thumbelina					tree rules
2	spin	to-infinitive	Thumbelina not said here			day	long property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	visit	past	the mole	THUMBELINA		evening		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	Thumbelina not said here		THUMBELINA			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	not is not said to happen	would · past	the sun			summer	hot, shine property	tree rules
6	burn	past · progressive	dowry	the earth		now	hard property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent earth=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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