The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 2

‘Take great care to hold me tight!’ said the Darning-needle to the Fingers who were holding her.

Who acts: Fingers · What happens: take, hold, say · To what, where: great care, me, Darning needle, 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 (Fingers), 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	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 care	amod
4	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hold	mark
6	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Take	advcl
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 hold	obj
8	tight	tight	ADV	_	6 hold	advmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 needle	det
13	Darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 needle	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Darning	punct
15	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 Fingers	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Fingers	det
18	Fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 needle	nmod
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 holding	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 holding	aux
21	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 Fingers	acl:relcl
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 holding	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	infinitive		great care		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	hold	to-infinitive		me	tight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		the Darning needle	to the Fingers	tree rules
4	hold	past · progressive	the Fingers	needle		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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