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title: Thumbelina trembled, she was so frightened; for the bird was very la… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thumbelina trembled, she was so frightened; for the bird was very large in comparison with herself--only an inch high. Who acts: Thumbelina, bird. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 174

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Thumbelina trembled, she was so frightened; for the bird was very large in comparison with herself--only an inch high.

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**Who acts:** Thumbelina, bird · **What happens:** tremble, be · **To what, where:** comparison

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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, bird), 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:pg640:47:174
# text = Thumbelina trembled, she was so frightened; for the bird was very large in comparison with herself--only an inch high.
1	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	comparison	comparison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
23	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tremble** | past | Thumbelina |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | THUMBELINA |  |  |  |  | frightened *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the bird |  |  | comparison with THUMBELINA |  | large *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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