The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 77

She was scarcely half a thumb in height; so they called her Thumbelina.

Who acts: flower, petals · What happens: be, call · To what, where: thumb, height · 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 (flower, petals), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thumb	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thumb	cop
3	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	4 half	advmod
4	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	6 thumb	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thumb	det
6	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 height	case
8	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thumb	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 called	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 called	nsubj
12	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thumb	acl:relcl
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 Thumbelina	nmod:poss
14	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 called	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thumb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	flower	half thumb		height			tree rules
2	call	past	petals = petal	half thumb not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thumb=Recipient

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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