The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 210

The mole had come to fetch Thumbelina to live with him deep down under the ground, never to come out into the warm sun again, for that was what he didn’t like.

Who acts: mole, that · What happens: come, fetch, live, not come out, be, not like · To what, where: Thumbelina, warm sun

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 (mole, that), 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 mole	det
2	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fetch	mark
6	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	xcomp
7	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fetch	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 live	mark
9	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fetch	xcomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 live	obl
12	deep	deep	ADV	_	13 down	advmod
13	down	down	ADV	_	9 live	advmod
14	under	under	ADP	_	16 ground	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ground	det
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 down	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 come	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 come	mark
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fetch	conj
21	out	out	ADV	_	20 come	advmod
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 sun	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sun	det
24	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sun	amod
25	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
26	again	again	ADV	_	20 come	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 what	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 what	case
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 what	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 what	cop
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 come	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 like	nsubj
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 like	aux
34	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 like	advmod
35	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 what	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	the mole					tree rules
2	fetch	to-infinitive	the mole not said here	Thumbelina				tree rules
3	live	to-infinitive	the mole not said here				with mole; down property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location
4	not come out	to-infinitive	the mole not said here		the warm sun	again	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	is	past	that					tree rules
6	not like	past · do-support	mole					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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