The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 78
An elegant polished walnut-shell served Thumbelina as a cradle, the blue petals of a violet were her mattress, and a rose-leaf her coverlid.
Who acts: elegant polished walnut shell, blue petals · What happens: polish, serve, be · To what, where: Thumbelina, mattress
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 (elegant polished walnut shell, blue 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shell | det |
| 2 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shell | amod |
| 3 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 shell | amod |
| 4 | walnut | walnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shell | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 walnut | punct |
| 6 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 served | nsubj |
| 7 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Thumbelina | Thumbelina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 served | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 cradle | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cradle | det |
| 11 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 served | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 petals | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 petals | det |
| 14 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 petals | amod |
| 15 | petals | petal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 mattress | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 violet | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 violet | det |
| 18 | violet | violet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 petals | nmod |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 mattress | cop |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mattress | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mattress | mattress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cradle | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 coverlid | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 coverlid | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 leaf | det |
| 25 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 leaf | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 rose | punct |
| 27 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 coverlid | compound |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 leaf | conj |
| 29 | coverlid | coverlid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 served | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | serve | past | a elegant polished walnut shell | Thumbelina | as a cradle; leaf coverlid obl | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent thumbelina=Duration as cradle=Attribute | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the blue petals of a violet | THUMBELINA's mattress | 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.
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