The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 240
‘How handsome he is!’ whispered Thumbelina to the swallow.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, whisper · To what, where: Thumbelina · 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 (man), 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 | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 handsome | advmod |
| 3 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 is | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 is | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 whispered | ccomp |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 8 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Thumbelina | Thumbelina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 whispered | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 swallow | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 swallow | det |
| 12 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whispered | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | Thumbelina | to the swallow | tree rules |
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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