The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 249

‘You shall not be called Thumbelina!’ said the spirit of the flower to her; ‘that is an ugly name, and you are much too pretty for that.

Who acts: Thumbelina, that, you · What happens: not call, say, be · To what, where: You, spirit, flower, ugly name · 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 (Thumbelina, that, you), 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	_	6 called	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 called	nsubj:pass
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 called	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 called	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 called	aux:pass
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 Thumbelina	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 Thumbelina	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 called	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spirit	det
12	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 flower	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 flower	det
15	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spirit	nmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 name	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 name	punct
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 name	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 name	cop
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 name	det
23	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 name	amod
24	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pretty	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pretty	cc
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 pretty	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 pretty	cop
29	much	much	ADV	_	30 too	advmod
30	too	too	ADV	_	31 pretty	advmod
31	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 called	advmod
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 that	case
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 pretty	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not call	shall · passive		You			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	Thumbelina	the spirit of the flower	flower		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent spirit=Topic to she=Recipient
3	is a	present	that	a ugly name			tree rules
4	is	present	you			for that; pretty property	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/249/