The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 14

‘Didn’t I tell you so!’ said the Darning-needle.

Who acts: I · What happens: not tell, say · To what, where: you, Darning 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 (I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
2	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	so	so	ADV	_	5 tell	advmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 needle	det
12	Darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 needle	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Darning	punct
14	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	past · do-support	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past		the Darning 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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