The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 95

The tiny Thumbelina woke up very early in the morning, and when she saw where she was she began to cry bitterly; for on every side of the great green leaf was water, and she could not get to the land.

Who acts: tiny Thumbelina, THUMBELINA, great green leaf, leaf · What happens: wake up, see, be, cry, not get

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 (tiny Thumbelina, THUMBELINA, great green leaf, 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	3 Thumbelina	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Thumbelina	amod
3	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 woke	nsubj
4	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 woke	compound:prt
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 early	advmod
7	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 woke	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 morning	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 woke	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 saw	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 woke	parataxis
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 began	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 began	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 began	cop
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 began	nsubj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saw	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 cry	mark
22	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	22 cry	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 side	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 side	case
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 side	case
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 side	det
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	35 water	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 leaf	det
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 leaf	amod
32	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 leaf	amod
33	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 water	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 water	cop
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 side	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 get	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 get	cc
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 get	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 get	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 get	advmod
41	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 saw	conj
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 land	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 land	det
44	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 get	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 woke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	past	the tiny Thumbelina	morning	early property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	see	past	THUMBELINA		for every side	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	THUMBELINA		begin property	tree rules
4	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	THUMBELINA not said here		bitterly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	the great green leaf		of water	tree rules
6	not get	could	leaf		to the land result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result

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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