The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 122

The needle was sewing away all by itself and making the neatest little stitches, such as Labakan had never been able to make even at his best.

Who acts: needle · What happens: sew away, make, not be · To what, where: neatest little stitches, best

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (needle), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 needle	det
2	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sewing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sewing	aux
4	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 sewing	advmod
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 itself	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 itself	case
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 sewing	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 making	cc
10	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sewing	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stitches	det
12	neatest	neat	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 stitches	amod
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stitches	amod
14	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 making	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 able	punct
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	18 Labakan	case
17	as	as	ADP	_	16 such	fixed
18	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 able	obl
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 able	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 able	advmod
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 able	cop
22	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stitches	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 make	mark
24	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 able	xcomp
25	even	even	ADV	_	28 best	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 best	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 best	nmod:poss
28	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 make	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sewing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sew away	past · progressive	the needle		by work; away property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme by itself=Destination
2	make	gerund	the needle not said here	the neatest little stitches		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stitch=Product
3	not is	past · perfect			such Labakan; able property	tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive		master's best		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset good=Product

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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