The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 36

The two melancholy ones thought, ‘That won’t save us!’ and they remained where they were.

Who acts: That, rocks · What happens: think, not save, remain, be · To what, where: two melancholy ones, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, rocks), 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	4 ones	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ones	nummod
3	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ones	compound
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thought	nsubj:pass
5	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 save	punct
8	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 save	nsubj
9	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 save	aux
10	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 save	advmod
11	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thought	ccomp
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 save	iobj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 save	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 save	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 remained	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 remained	nsubj
17	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	conj
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 were	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 were	nsubj
20	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 remained	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	participle · passive		the two melancholy ones		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	not save	future	That		us	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
3	remain	past	rocks = rock			tree rules
4	be	past	rocks = rock			vn exist-47.1 «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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