The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 19

When one is something, one will become something!’

Who acts: something · What happens: be, become · To what, where: something

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 (something), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	8 become	mark
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 something	nummod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 something	cop
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 become	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 become	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 become	aux
8	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 become	xcomp
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 become	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		something					tree rules
2	become	future	something						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 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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