--- title: Then they took the neat little cradle and swam away with it; but Thu… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then they took the neat little cradle and swam away with it; but Thumbelina sat alone on the great green leaf and wept, for she did not want to live with the clammy toad, or marry her ugly son. Who acts: Croak, Thumbelina. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/100/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Witch in the Stone Boat(31)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/) / 100 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 100 Then they took the neat little cradle and swam away with it; but Thumbelina sat alone on the great green leaf and wept, for she did not want to live with the clammy toad, or marry her ugly son. **Who acts:** Croak, Thumbelina · **What happens:** take, swim away, sit, weep, not want, live · **To what, where:** neat little cradle, great green leaf, ugly son 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 (Croak, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:47:100 # text = Then they took the neat little cradle and swam away with it; but Thumbelina sat alone on the great green leaf and wept, for she did not want to live with the clammy toad, or marry her ugly son. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 neat neat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 cradle cradle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 swam swim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 Thumbelina Thumbelina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 alone alone ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 for for SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 clammy clammy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Croak | the neat little cradle | | | then | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cradle=Theme | | 2 | **swim away** | past | Croak *not said here* | | | | | with cradle; away *property* | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with it=Theme | | 3 | **sit** | past | Thumbelina | | | the great green leaf | | alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leaf=Location | | 4 | **weep** | past | Thumbelina *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | THUMBELINA | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **live** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | THUMBELINA *not said here* | | | | | with the clammy toad | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with toad=Location | | 7 | **marry** | infinitive | THUMBELINA *not said here* | THUMBELINA's ugly son | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/99/) - next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/101/) - ↑ back to [The Witch in the Stone Boat(31)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/)