The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 84

‘This would make a beautiful wife for my son,’ said the toad, taking up the walnut-shell, with Thumbelina inside, and hopping with it through the window into the garden.

Who acts: This · What happens: make, say, take up, hop · To what, where: beautiful wife, toad, walnut shell, window · 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 (This), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wife	det
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wife	amod
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 son	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wife	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 toad	det
15	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taking	punct
17	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 taking	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 shell	det
20	walnut	walnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shell	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 walnut	punct
22	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taking	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Thumbelina	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 Thumbelina	case
25	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 taking	vocative
26	inside	inside	ADV	_	17 taking	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hopping	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hopping	cc
29	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 taking	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hopping	obl
32	through	through	ADP	_	34 window	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 window	det
34	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hopping	obl
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 garden	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 garden	det
37	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hopping	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	would	This	a beautiful wife		for my son	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wife=Product for son=Beneficiary
2	say speech: assert	past		the toad			tree rules
3	take up	gerund		the walnut shell		Thumbelina vocative; inside property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme
4	hop	gerund			the window	with toad; into the garden	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination

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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