The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 204
By the autumn Thumbelina had finished the dowry.
What happens: finish · To what, where: Thumbelina
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: 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 autumn | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 autumn | det |
| 3 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finished | obl |
| 4 | Thumbelina | Thumbelina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 finished | aux |
| 6 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dowry | det |
| 8 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finished | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect · passive | Thumbelina | autumn | 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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