The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 219

She told him how unwilling she was to marry the ugly mole, as then she had to live underground where the sun never shone, and she could not help bursting into tears.

Who acts: THUMBELINA, sun · What happens: tell, unwill, be, have, live, not shine · To what, where: doubt, tears · 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, sun), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 unwilling	advmod
5	unwilling	unwill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 told	advcl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 marry	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 marry	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 marry	mark
9	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 unwilling	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mole	det
11	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mole	amod
12	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 marry	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 then	case
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 had	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 marry	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 live	mark
19	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 had	xcomp
20	underground	underground	ADV	_	19 live	advmod
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 shone	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sun	det
23	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shone	nsubj
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 shone	advmod
25	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 live	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 help	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 help	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 help	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 help	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 help	advmod
31	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
32	bursting	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 help	xcomp
33	into	into	ADP	_	34 tears	case
34	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 bursting	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	THUMBELINA	doubt			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	unwill	gerund	THUMBELINA not said here				tree rules
3	is	past	THUMBELINA			marry property	tree rules
4	have	past	THUMBELINA				tree rules
5	live	to-infinitive	THUMBELINA not said here			underground property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not shine	past	the sun				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not help	could	THUMBELINA				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	burst not said to happen	gerund	THUMBELINA not said here		tears		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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