The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 94
The leaf farthest away was the largest, and to this the old toad swam with Thumbelina in her walnut-shell.
Who acts: leaf · What happens: be, swim · To what, where: old toad, walnut shell
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 (leaf), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 leaf | det |
| 2 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 largest | nsubj |
| 3 | farthest | far | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 leaf | amod |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 farthest | advmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 largest | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 largest | det |
| 7 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 swam | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 swam | cc |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 toad | case |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 toad | nsubj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 toad | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 toad | amod |
| 14 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 swam | obl |
| 15 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 largest | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Thumbelina | case |
| 17 | Thumbelina | Thumbelina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 swam | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 shell | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 shell | nmod:poss |
| 20 | walnut | walnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shell | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 walnut | punct |
| 22 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 swam | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 largest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the leaf | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swim | past | the leaf not said here | the old toad | leaf's walnut shell | with Thumbelina | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to toad=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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