The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 76

It was a real tulip, such as one can see any day; but in the middle of the blossom, on the green velvety petals, sat a little girl, quite tiny, trim, and pretty.

Who acts: corn, one · What happens: be, see, sit · To what, where: real tulip, little girl, middle

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 (corn, one), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tulip	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tulip	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tulip	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tulip	amod
5	tulip	tulip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 such	punct
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tulip	amod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 see	mark
9	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 such	advcl
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 sat	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 sat	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 middle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 middle	det
18	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sat	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 blossom	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 blossom	det
21	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 middle	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 petals	punct
23	on	on	ADP	_	27 petals	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 petals	det
25	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 petals	amod
26	velvety	velvety	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 petals	amod
27	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 middle	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 middle	punct
29	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tulip	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 girl	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 girl	amod
32	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sat	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 tiny	punct
34	quite	quite	ADV	_	35 tiny	advmod
35	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sat	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 trim	punct
37	trim	trim	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tiny	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 pretty	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 pretty	cc
40	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	29 sat	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tulip	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	corn	a real tulip			tree rules
2	see	can	one			day	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	sit	past		a little girl	the middle of the blossom and the green velvety petals		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme in middle=Location

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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