The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 242
But when he saw Thumbelina, he was delighted, for she was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.
Who acts: man, THUMBELINA · What happens: see, be · To what, where: Thumbelina, beautiful girl
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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 delighted | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 delighted | advcl |
| 5 | Thumbelina | Thumbelina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 delighted | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 delighted | cop |
| 9 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 girl | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 girl | case |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 girl | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 girl | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 beautiful | advmod |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 delighted | advcl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 seen | advmod |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 girl | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | man | Thumbelina | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thumbelina=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | man | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | THUMBELINA | for the beautiful girl | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | man | the beautiful girl not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus |
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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