The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 79

There she lay at night, but in the day-time she used to play about on the table; here the woman had put a bowl, surrounded by a ring of flowers, with their stalks in water, in the middle of which floated a great tulip pedal, and on this Thumbelina sat, and sailed from one side of the bowl to the other, rowing herself with two white horse-hairs for oars.

Who acts: shell, middle · What happens: lie, use, play about, put, surround, float · To what, where: middle, table, woman, great tulip pedal, Thumbelina, one side

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 (shell, middle), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 lay	expl
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 used	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 used	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 time	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 time	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 day	punct
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 used	obl
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 used	nsubj
14	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 play	mark
16	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 used	xcomp
17	about	about	ADV	_	16 play	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 table	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 table	det
20	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 play	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 put	punct
22	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 put	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 woman	det
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 put	aux
26	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lay	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bowl	det
28	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 surrounded	punct
30	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 put	conj
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 ring	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 ring	det
33	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 surrounded	obl:agent
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 flowers	case
35	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 ring	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 stalks	punct
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 stalks	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 stalks	nmod:poss
39	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	obl
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 water	case
41	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stalks	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 middle	punct
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 middle	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 middle	det
45	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 which	case
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 floated	nsubj
48	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 middle	acl:relcl
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 pedal	det
50	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 pedal	amod
51	tulip	tulip	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 pedal	compound
52	pedal	pedal	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 floated	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 sat	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 sat	cc
55	on	on	ADP	_	57 Thumbelina	case
56	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	57 Thumbelina	det
57	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 sat	obl
58	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	advcl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 sailed	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 sailed	cc
61	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
62	from	from	ADP	_	64 side	case
63	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	64 side	nummod
64	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 sailed	obl
65	of	of	ADP	_	67 bowl	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 bowl	det
67	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 side	nmod
68	to	to	ADP	_	70 other	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 other	det
70	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 sailed	obl
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 rowing	punct
72	rowing	row	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	61 sailed	advcl
73	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	72 rowing	obj
74	with	with	ADP	_	79 hairs	case
75	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	79 hairs	nummod
76	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	79 hairs	amod
77	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 hairs	compound
78	-	-	PUNCT	_	77 horse	punct
79	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	72 rowing	obl
80	for	for	ADP	_	81 oars	case
81	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	79 hairs	nmod
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	shell		the middle; there	night	with petals's stalks in water	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location
2	use	past	shell			time		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	play about	to-infinitive	shell not said here		the table		about property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	put	past · perfect · passive		the woman	here			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset bowl=Goal
5	surround	participle						vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	float	past	the middle	a great tulip pedal				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pedal=Agent
7	sit	past	shell not said here		this Thumbelina			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on thumbelina=Location
8	sail	past	shell not said here		one side of the bowl		to the other	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from side=Trajectory
9	row	gerund	shell not said here	shell			with two white horse hairs for oars	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme

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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