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title: There she sat and wept, because she was so ugly that the cockchafer… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There she sat and wept, because she was so ugly that the cockchafer would have nothing to do with her; and yet she was the most beautiful creature imaginable, so soft and delicate, like the loveliest rose-leaf. Who acts: THUMBELINA, cockchafer. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, T
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 122

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There she sat and wept, because she was so ugly that the cockchafer would have nothing to do with her; and yet she was the most beautiful creature imaginable, so soft and delicate, like the loveliest rose-leaf.

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**Who acts:** THUMBELINA, cockchafer · **What happens:** sit, weep, be, have, do · **To what, where:** nothing

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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 (THUMBELINA, cockchafer), 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:pg640:47:122
# text = There she sat and wept, because she was so ugly that the cockchafer would have nothing to do with her; and yet she was the most beautiful creature imaginable, so soft and delicate, like the loveliest rose-leaf.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cockchafer	cockchafer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
24	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	29	advmod	_	_
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	like	like	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
40	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	43	amod	_	_
41	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | THUMBELINA |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **weep** | past | THUMBELINA *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | THUMBELINA |  |  |  |  | ugly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | would | the cockchafer | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | the cockchafer *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  | with THUMBELINA | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | THUMBELINA |  |  |  | yet | the beautiful creature *obl:unmarked*; imaginable *property* | tree rules |

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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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