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title: She was very ugly, clumsy, and clammy; she hopped on to the table wh… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was very ugly, clumsy, and clammy; she hopped on to the table where Thumbelina lay asleep under the red rose-leaf. Who acts: woman, Thumbelina. 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 83

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She was very ugly, clumsy, and clammy; she hopped on to the table where Thumbelina lay asleep under the red rose-leaf.

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**Who acts:** woman, Thumbelina · **What happens:** be, hop on, lie · **To what, where:** table, red rose leaf

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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 (woman, 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:pg640:47:83
# text = She was very ugly, clumsy, and clammy; she hopped on to the table where Thumbelina lay asleep under the red rose-leaf.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	clammy	clammy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hopped	hop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
18	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
20	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	under	under	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | woman |  |  |  |  | ugly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hop on** | past | woman |  |  | the table |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to table=Destination |
| 5 | **lie** | past | Thumbelina |  |  | the red rose leaf |  | asleep *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under leaf=Location |

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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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