The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 25

Indeed, there was only one thing whose shape he could not take, and that was a needle.

Who acts: thing, that · What happens: not take, be · To what, where: shape, needle

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, that), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 was	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 needle	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 thing	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 thing	nummod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
8	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	9 shape	nmod:poss
9	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thing	nmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 take	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 take	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 take	advmod
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 shape	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 needle	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 needle	cc
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 needle	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 needle	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 needle	det
19	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 needle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take	could	thing	one thing one thing shape's shape's shape not said here					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme
2	is a	past	that	a needle					tree rules

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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