The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 1

There was once a Darning-needle who thought herself so fine that she believed she was an embroidery-needle.

Who acts: Darning needle, needle · What happens: be, think, believe · To what, where: needle, embroidery needle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darning needle, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 needle	det
5	Darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needle	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Darning	punct
7	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 needle	acl:relcl
10	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 thought	obj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 fine	advmod
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thought	xcomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 believed	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 believed	nsubj
15	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fine	advcl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 needle	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 needle	cop
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 needle	det
19	embroidery	embroidery	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 needle	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 embroidery	punct
21	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 believed	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a Darning needle		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	a Darning needle	needle		fine property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herself=Theme
3	believe	past	needle				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	needle	a embroidery 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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