The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 213

‘Farewell, farewell!’ she said, and put her arms round a little red flower that grew there.

Who acts: stubble, little red flower · What happens: say, put, grow · To what, where: arms · 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 (stubble, little red flower), 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 said	punct
2	Farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	8 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Farewell	punct
4	farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	2 Farewell	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Farewell	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Farewell	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 put	cc
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 arms	nmod:poss
13	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 put	obj
14	round	round	ADP	_	18 flower	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 flower	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flower	amod
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flower	amod
18	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 grew	nsubj
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 flower	acl:relcl
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 grew	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	stubble				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	put	infinitive		stubble's arms		round a little red flower	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal
3	grow	past	a little red flower		there		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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