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title: Each brought Thumbelina a present, but the best of all was a beautif… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Each brought Thumbelina a present, but the best of all was a beautiful pair of wings which were fastened on to her back, and now she too could fly from flower to flower. Who acts: THUMBELINA. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency t
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 247

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Each brought Thumbelina a present, but the best of all was a beautiful pair of wings which were fastened on to her back, and now she too could fly from flower to flower.

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**Who acts:** THUMBELINA · **What happens:** bring, be, fasten, fly · **To what, where:** present, Thumbelina, best beautiful pair, flower

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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), 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:pg640:47:247
# text = Each brought Thumbelina a present, but the best of all was a beautiful pair of wings which were fastened on to her back, and now she too could fly from flower to flower.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
2	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **bring** | past |  | a present | Thumbelina |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thumbelina=Destination present=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a best beautiful pair |  |  |  | of wings | tree rules |
| 3 | **fasten** | past · passive |  | a best beautiful pair |  |  |  | on THUMBELINA's back | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient on back=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **fly** | could | THUMBELINA |  |  | flower | now | to flower | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from flower=Initial\_Location to flower=Destination |

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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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