The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 83
She was very ugly, clumsy, and clammy; she hopped on to the table where Thumbelina lay asleep under the red rose-leaf.
Who acts: woman, Thumbelina · What happens: be, hop on, lie · To what, where: table, red rose leaf
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 (woman, Thumbelina), 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 | 4 ugly | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ugly | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 ugly | advmod |
| 4 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 clumsy | punct |
| 6 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ugly | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 clammy | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 clammy | cc |
| 9 | clammy | clammy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ugly | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 hopped | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hopped | nsubj |
| 12 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ugly | parataxis |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 hopped | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 table | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 table | det |
| 16 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hopped | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 lay | advmod |
| 18 | Thumbelina | Thumbelina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lay | nsubj |
| 19 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hopped | advcl |
| 20 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lay | xcomp |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 leaf | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 leaf | det |
| 23 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 leaf | amod |
| 24 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 leaf | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 rose | punct |
| 26 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lay | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ugly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | woman | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | woman not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | woman not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | hop on | past | woman | the table | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to table=Destination | ||||
| 5 | lie | past | Thumbelina | the red rose leaf | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under leaf=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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