The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 224
‘Yes, I will go with you,’ said Thumbelina, and got on the swallow’s back, with her feet on one of his outstretched wings.
Who acts: I, Thumbelina · What happens: go, say, get · 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 (I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 go | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Thumbelina | Thumbelina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 got | cc |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 swallow | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 swallow | det |
| 18 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ’s | obl |
| 19 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | ccomp |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 ’s | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 feet | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 feet | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 feet | nmod:poss |
| 24 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 got | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 one | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 feet | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 wings | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 wings | nmod:poss |
| 29 | outstretched | outstretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 wings | amod |
| 30 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 one | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Thumbelina | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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