The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 21

And indeed the stuff was very fine, and would go through the eye of a very large needle; but the King, who was only too glad to make a difficulty, sent for a particular needle, which was kept among the Crown jewels, and had such a small eye that everybody saw at once that it was impossible that the muslin should pass through it.

Who acts: stuff, King, everybody, muslin · What happens: be, go, make, send, keep, have · To what, where: eye, difficulty, particular needle, Crown jewels, small eye, stuff

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stuff, King, everybody, muslin), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 fine	cc
2	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 fine	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stuff	det
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fine	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 fine	advmod
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 go	cc
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	parataxis
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 eye	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 eye	det
14	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 needle	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 needle	det
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 large	advmod
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 needle	amod
19	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eye	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 King	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 King	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fine	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 glad	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 glad	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 glad	cop
27	only	only	ADV	_	29 glad	advmod
28	too	too	ADV	_	29 glad	advmod
29	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 King	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 make	mark
31	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 glad	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 difficulty	det
33	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sent	punct
35	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 difficulty	acl
36	for	for	ADP	_	39 needle	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 needle	det
38	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 needle	amod
39	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sent	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 kept	punct
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 kept	nsubj:pass
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 kept	aux:pass
43	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 needle	acl:relcl
44	among	among	ADP	_	47 jewels	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 jewels	det
46	Crown	Crown	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 jewels	compound
47	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 kept	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 had	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 had	cc
50	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 King	acl:relcl
51	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	54 eye	det:predet
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 eye	det
53	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 eye	amod
54	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 had	obj
55	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 saw	obj
56	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	57 saw	nsubj
57	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 eye	acl:relcl
58	at	at	ADP	_	59 once	case
59	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	57 saw	obl
60	that	that	SCONJ	_	63 impossible	mark
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 impossible	expl
62	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 impossible	cop
63	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 saw	conj
64	that	that	SCONJ	_	68 pass	mark
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 muslin	det
66	muslin	muslin	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 pass	nsubj
67	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	68 pass	aux
68	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 impossible	ccomp
69	through	through	ADP	_	70 it	case
70	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 pass	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the stuff			fine, indeed property	tree rules
2	go	would			the eye of a large needle		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through eye=Initial_Location
3	is	past	the King			glad property	tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive	the King not said here	a difficulty			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difficulty=Product
5	send	participle		a difficulty not said here		for a particular needle	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	keep	past · passive		a particular needle	the Crown jewels		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme among jewel=Location
7	have	past	the King not said here	such small eye			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
8	see	past	everybody	such small eye			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
9	is	past	everybody not said here			impossible property	tree rules
10	pass	should	the muslin		stuff		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through it=Location

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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