The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 123

Certainly even the smallest gift of a kind fairy is of great value, and this one had yet another advantage, for the thread never came to an end, however much the needle sewed.

Who acts: smallest gift, one, needle · What happens: be, advantage, not come, sew, gift · To what, where: end, kind fairy

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 (smallest gift, one, 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	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 gift	advmod
2	even	even	ADV	_	5 gift	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gift	det
4	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 gift	amod
5	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 value	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 fairy	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fairy	det
8	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fairy	amod
9	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gift	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 value	cop
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 value	case
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 value	amod
13	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 advantage	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 advantage	cc
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 advantage	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 advantage	aux
19	yet	yet	ADV	_	21 advantage	advmod
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 advantage	det
21	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 value	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 thread	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 thread	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 thread	det
25	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 came	advmod
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 value	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 end	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 end	det
30	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sewed	punct
32	however	however	ADV	_	33 much	advmod
33	much	much	ADV	_	36 sewed	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 needle	det
35	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sewed	nsubj
36	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 came	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 value	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the smallest gift of a kind fairy			of great value and another advantage	tree rules
2	advantage	past	this one		yet		tree rules
3	not come	past			to a end	for the thread	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location
4	sew	past	the needle				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	gift			a kind fairy			nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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