The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 248

They all wished her joy, and the swallow sat above in his nest and sang the wedding march, and that he did as well as he could; but he was sad, because he was very fond of Thumbelina and did not want to be separated from her.

Who acts: presents, swallow, pair, THUMBELINA · What happens: wish, sit, sing, do, be, not want · To what, where: joy, nest, wedding march

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 (presents, swallow, pair, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wished	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 wished	advmod
3	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 joy	nmod:poss
5	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wished	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 swallow	det
9	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wished	advcl
11	above	above	ADV	_	10 sat	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 nest	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 nest	nmod:poss
14	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sang	cc
16	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sat	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 march	det
18	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 march	compound
19	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sang	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 did	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 did	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 did	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 did	nsubj
24	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wished	advcl
25	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	24 did	advmod
26	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 as	fixed
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 could	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 could	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 did	advcl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 sad	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 sad	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sad	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sad	cop
34	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wished	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fond	punct
36	because	because	SCONJ	_	40 fond	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 fond	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 fond	cop
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 fond	advmod
40	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sad	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 Thumbelina	case
42	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 fond	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 want	cc
44	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 want	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 want	advmod
46	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wished	conj
47	to	to	PART	_	49 separated	mark
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 separated	aux:pass
49	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 want	xcomp
50	from	from	ADP	_	51 her	case
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 separated	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish	past	presents = present	THUMBELINA's joy			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot joy=Theme
2	sit	past	the swallow		pair's nest	above property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nest=Location
3	sing speech: express	past	the swallow not said here	the wedding march			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location march=Theme
4	do	past	pair				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	pair			sad property	tree rules
6	is	past	pair			of Thumbelina; fond property	tree rules
7	not want	past · do-support	presents = present not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	separate not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	presents = present not said here			from THUMBELINA	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: from she=Co-Patient
9	joy		THUMBELINA				nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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