The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 36

One day they paid more attention than usual when they heard her talk, and put their ears close to a crack in the wall between the rooms, and heard the Queen say quite plainly, ‘When I yawn a little, then I am a nice little maiden; when I yawn half-way, then I am half a troll; and when I yawn fully, then I am a troll altogether.’

Who acts: fellows, Queen, I · What happens: pay, hear, put, say, yawn, be · To what, where: more attention, talk, ears, little, half way, troll · 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 (fellows, Queen, I), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 attention	amod
6	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 usual	case
8	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 paid	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 heard	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 paid	advcl
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 talk	nmod:poss
13	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 put	cc
16	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 paid	conj
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 ears	nmod:poss
18	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 put	obj
19	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ears	amod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 crack	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 crack	det
22	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 close	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 wall	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wall	det
25	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 crack	nmod
26	between	between	ADP	_	28 rooms	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 rooms	det
28	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 wall	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 heard	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 heard	cc
31	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 paid	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Queen	det
33	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 say	nsubj
34	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 heard	ccomp
35	quite	quite	ADV	_	36 plainly	advmod
36	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	34 say	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 yawn	punct
38	‘	'	PUNCT	_	41 yawn	punct
39	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	41 yawn	advmod
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 yawn	nsubj
41	yawn	yawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 heard	parataxis
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 little	det
43	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 yawn	obl:unmarked
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 maiden	punct
45	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 maiden	advmod
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 maiden	nsubj
47	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 maiden	cop
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 maiden	det
49	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 maiden	amod
50	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 maiden	amod
51	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 heard	conj
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 yawn	punct
53	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	55 yawn	advmod
54	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 yawn	nsubj
55	yawn	yawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 paid	parataxis
56	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	58 way	compound
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 half	punct
58	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 yawn	obj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 troll	punct
60	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	65 troll	advmod
61	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	65 troll	nsubj
62	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	65 troll	cop
63	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	65 troll	det:predet
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 troll	det
65	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 yawn	obl
66	;	;	PUNCT	_	70 yawn	punct
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 yawn	cc
68	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	70 yawn	advmod
69	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	70 yawn	nsubj
70	yawn	yawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 yawn	conj
71	fully	fully	ADV	_	70 yawn	advmod
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	77 troll	punct
73	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	77 troll	advmod
74	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	77 troll	nsubj
75	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	77 troll	cop
76	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	77 troll	det
77	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	parataxis
78	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	77 troll	advmod
79	.	.	PUNCT	_	77 troll	punct
80	’	'	PUNCT	_	77 troll	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	fellows = fellow	more attention	day	than usual	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
2	hear	past	fellows = fellow	Queen's talk			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus
3	put	infinitive	fellows = fellow not said here	fellows's ears			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ear=Goal
4	hear	past					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	present	the Queen			plainly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	yawn	present	I	a little			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	I		then	maiden property	tree rules
8	yawn	present	I	half way			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
9	is a	present	I	half troll	then		tree rules
10	yawn	present	I			fully property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	is a	present	I	a troll	then	altogether property	tree rules
12	talk		Queen				nom talk «communication intransitive»: 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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