The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 247

Each brought Thumbelina a present, but the best of all was a beautiful pair of wings which were fastened on to her back, and now she too could fly from flower to flower.

Who acts: THUMBELINA · What happens: bring, be, fasten, fly · To what, where: present, Thumbelina, best beautiful pair, 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 (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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 brought	advmod
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 present	det
5	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pair	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 pair	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 best	det
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 pair	amod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 best	obl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pair	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pair	det
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pair	amod
15	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	advcl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 wings	case
17	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pair	nmod
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 fastened	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fastened	aux:pass
20	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 pair	acl:relcl
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 back	case
22	to	to	ADP	_	21 on	fixed
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 back	nmod:poss
24	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fastened	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fly	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fly	cc
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 fly	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fly	nsubj
29	too	too	ADV	_	31 fly	advmod
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 fly	aux
31	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 brought	conj
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 flower	case
33	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fly	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 flower	case
35	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fly	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past		a present	Thumbelina				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thumbelina=Destination present=Theme
2	is a	past		a best beautiful pair				of wings	tree rules
3	fasten	past · passive		a best beautiful pair				on THUMBELINA's back	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient on back=Co-Patient
4	fly	could	THUMBELINA			flower	now	to flower	vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from flower=Initial_Location to flower=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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