The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 26

Sometimes he would stitch away as fast as if he had a red-hot needle and a burning thread, and at other times he would sit lost in thought, and with such a queer look about him that his fellow-workmen used to say, “Labakan has got on his aristocratic face today.”

Who acts: Labakan, fellow workmen · What happens: stitch away, have, burn, sit, lose, look · To what, where: red hot needle, thought, aristocratic face · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Labakan, fellow workmen), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 stitch	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stitch	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stitch	aux
4	stitch	stitch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 stitch	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 stitch	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stitch	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 needle	det
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 needle	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 red	punct
15	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 needle	amod
16	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thread	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 thread	det
19	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 thread	amod
20	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 needle	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sit	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sit	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 times	case
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 times	amod
25	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sit	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sit	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 sit	aux
28	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stitch	conj
29	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 sit	advcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 thought	case
31	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lost	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 look	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 look	cc
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 queer	case
35	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	37 queer	det:predet
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 queer	det
37	queer	queer	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 look	obl
38	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 stitch	parataxis
39	about	about	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 look	obl
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 used	mark
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 workmen	nmod:poss
43	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 workmen	amod
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 fellow	punct
45	workmen	workman	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 used	nsubj
46	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 look	advcl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 say	mark
48	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 used	xcomp
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 got	punct
50	“	"	PUNCT	_	53 got	punct
51	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 got	nsubj
52	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 got	aux
53	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	48 say	ccomp
54	on	on	ADP	_	57 face	case
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 face	nmod:poss
56	aristocratic	aristocratic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 face	amod
57	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 got	obl
58	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 got	obl:unmarked
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stitch	punct
60	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 stitch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stitch away	would	Labakan				away, fast, sometimes property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	have	past	Labakan	a red hot needle and a burning thread				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Patient
3	burn	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit	would	Labakan			time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lose	participle	Labakan not said here		thought			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in thought=Eventuality
6	look	infinitive					with such queer; about Labakan	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
7	use	past	Labakan's fellow workmen					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Labakan's fellow workmen not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	get in a quote	present · perfect	Labakan		Labakan's aristocratic face	today		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on face=Source

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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