--- title: There she lay at night, but in the day-time she used to play about o… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: There she lay at night, but in the day-time she used to play about on the table; here the woman had put a bowl, surrounded by a ring of flowers, with their stalks in water, in the middle of which floated a great tulip pedal, and on this Thumbelina sat, and sailed from one side of the bowl to the oth --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/79/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Witch in the Stone Boat(31)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/) / 79 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 79 There she lay at night, but in the day-time she used to play about on the table; here the woman had put a bowl, surrounded by a ring of flowers, with their stalks in water, in the middle of which floated a great tulip pedal, and on this Thumbelina sat, and sailed from one side of the bowl to the other, rowing herself with two white horse-hairs for oars. **Who acts:** shell, middle · **What happens:** lie, use, play about, put, surround, float · **To what, where:** middle, table, woman, great tulip pedal, Thumbelina, one side 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 (shell, middle), 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:pg640:47:79 # text = There she lay at night, but in the day-time she used to play about on the table; here the woman had put a bowl, surrounded by a ring of flowers, with their stalks in water, in the middle of which floated a great tulip pedal, and on this Thumbelina sat, and sailed from one side of the bowl to the other, rowing herself with two white horse-hairs for oars. 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 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 22 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:agent _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 stalks stalk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 48 nsubj _ _ 48 floated float VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 acl:relcl _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 50 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 51 tulip tulip NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 52 pedal pedal NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 55 on on ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 57 det _ _ 57 Thumbelina Thumbelina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 obl _ _ 58 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 61 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 62 from from ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 63 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 64 nummod _ _ 64 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obl _ _ 65 of of ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 67 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 nmod _ _ 68 to to ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 69 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 70 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 71 , , PUNCT , _ 72 punct _ _ 72 rowing row VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 61 advcl _ _ 73 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 72 obj _ _ 74 with with ADP IN _ 79 case _ _ 75 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 79 nummod _ _ 76 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 79 amod _ _ 77 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 79 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 78 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 77 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 79 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 72 obl _ _ 80 for for ADP IN _ 81 case _ _ 81 oars oar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 79 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 82 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | past | shell | | | the middle; there | night | with petals's stalks in water | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | | 2 | **use** | past | shell | | | | time | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **play about** | to-infinitive | shell *not said here* | | | the table | | about *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **put** | past · perfect · passive | | the woman | | here | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset bowl=Goal | | 5 | **surround** | participle | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **float** | past | the middle | a great tulip pedal | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pedal=Agent | | 7 | **sit** | past | shell *not said here* | | | this Thumbelina | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on thumbelina=Location | | 8 | **sail** | past | shell *not said here* | | | one side of the bowl | | to the other | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from side=Trajectory | | 9 | **row** | gerund | shell *not said here* | shell | | | | with two white horse hairs for oars | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=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 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/80/) - ↑ back to [The Witch in the Stone Boat(31)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/)