--- title: Thumbelina had to spin all day long, and every evening the mole visi… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Thumbelina had to spin all day long, and every evening the mole visited her, and told her that when the summer was over the sun would not shine so hot; now it was burning the earth as hard as a stone. Who acts: Thumbelina, mole, sun, dowry. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thumbelina, mole, sun, dowry), 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:pg640:47:199 # text = Thumbelina had to spin all day long, and every evening the mole visited her, and told her that when the summer was over the sun would not shine so hot; now it was burning the earth as hard as a stone. 1 Thumbelina Thumbelina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 spin spin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 visited visit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 25 over over SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 shine shine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 burning burn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 as as ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 advmod _ _ 42 as as ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Thumbelina | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **spin** | to-infinitive | Thumbelina *not said here* | | | | day | long *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **visit** | past | the mole | THUMBELINA | | | evening | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Thumbelina *not said here* | | THUMBELINA | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **is** *not said to happen* | would · past | the sun | | | | summer | hot, shine *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **burn** | past · progressive | dowry | the earth | | | now | hard *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent earth=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. - ← previous: [sentence 198](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/198/) - next →: [sentence 200](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/200/) - ↑ back to [The Witch in the Stone Boat(31)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/)