The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 21

Then she sat up as proudly as if she were in a State coach, and looked all round her.

Who acts: needle · What happens: sit up, be, look

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 proudly	advmod
6	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
7	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	14 coach	case
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 as	fixed
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 coach	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 coach	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 coach	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 coach	det
13	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coach	compound
14	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 looked	cc
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
18	all	all	ADV	_	17 looked	advmod
19	round	round	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looked	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	sit up	past	needle	then	proudly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	needle		as a State coach	tree rules
3	look	past	needle not said here		round needle; all property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round 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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