The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 97

She wanted to fetch the pretty cradle to put it into her room before Thumbelina herself came there.

Who acts: THUMBELINA · What happens: want, fetch, put, come · To what, where: pretty cradle, cradle, room

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 (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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fetch	mark
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cradle	det
6	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cradle	amod
7	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetch	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 put	mark
9	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fetch	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 put	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 room	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 room	nmod:poss
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 came	mark
15	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
16	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 Thumbelina	appos
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 put	advcl
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 came	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	want	past	THUMBELINA			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	fetch not said to happen	to-infinitive	THUMBELINA not said here	the pretty cradle		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cradle=Theme
3	put	to-infinitive	THUMBELINA not said here	cradle	THUMBELINA's room	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
4	come	past	Thumbelina		there	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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