The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 236
The swallow flew down with Thumbelina, and set her upon one of the broad leaves.
Who acts: swallow · What happens: fly down, set · To what, where: flower
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 (swallow), 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 swallow | det |
| 2 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 Thumbelina | case |
| 6 | Thumbelina | Thumbelina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 set | obj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 set | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 leaves | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 leaves | det |
| 15 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 leaves | amod |
| 16 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly down | past | the swallow | with Thumbelina; down property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set | past | the swallow not said here | flower | upon one of the broad leaves | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme upon one=Destination |
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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