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title: Later on, all the other cockchafers who lived in the same tree came… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Later on, all the other cockchafers who lived in the same tree came to pay calls; they examined Thumbelina closely, and remarked, ‘Why, she has only two legs! Who acts: other cockchafers, calls, THUMBELINA. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with i
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 116

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Later on, all the other cockchafers who lived in the same tree came to pay calls; they examined Thumbelina closely, and remarked, ‘Why, she has only two legs!

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**Who acts:** other cockchafers, calls, THUMBELINA · **What happens:** live, come, pay, examine, remark, have · **To what, where:** same tree, calls, Thumbelina, two legs

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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 (other cockchafers, calls, THUMBELINA), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg640:47:116
# text = Later on, all the other cockchafers who lived in the same tree came to pay calls; they examined Thumbelina closely, and remarked, ‘Why, she has only two legs!
1	Later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cockchafers	cockchafer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	examined	examine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | all other cockchafers |  |  | the same tree |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | all other cockchafers |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pay** | to-infinitive | all other cockchafers *not said here* | calls |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Asset |
| 4 | **examine** | past | calls *= call* | Thumbelina |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thumbelina=Theme |
| 5 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle | all other cockchafers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **have** | present | THUMBELINA | two legs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |

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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.

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**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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