The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 223

Do come with me, dear little Thumbelina, who saved my life when I lay frozen in the dark tunnel!’

Who acts: you, dear little Thumbelina · What happens: come, save, freeze · To what, where: dear little Thumbelina, life, I, dark tunnel

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 (you, dear little Thumbelina), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 come	aux
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 come	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Thumbelina	punct
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Thumbelina	amod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Thumbelina	amod
8	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saved	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 saved	nsubj
11	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Thumbelina	acl:relcl
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 life	nmod:poss
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saved	obj
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 frozen	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 frozen	nsubj
16	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 frozen	aux:pass
17	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 saved	advcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 tunnel	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tunnel	det
20	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tunnel	amod
21	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 frozen	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	imperative · do-support	you not said here	dear little Thumbelina		with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	save	past	dear little Thumbelina	my life			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
3	freeze	past · passive		I	the dark tunnel		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

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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