The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 25

And so saying the Darning-needle raised herself up so proudly that she fell out of the dress, right into the sink which the cook was rinsing out.

Who acts: Darning needle, needle, cook · What happens: say, raise up, fall, rinse out · To what, where: Darning needle, needle, dress, sink · 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, cook), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 saying	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 saying	advmod
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def 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	3 saying	obj
8	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 needle	acl
9	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 raised	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 raised	compound:prt
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 proudly	advmod
12	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	3 saying	advmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 fell	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fell	nsubj
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	ccomp
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 dress	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 dress	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dress	det
19	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fell	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sink	punct
21	right	right	ADV	_	24 sink	advmod
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 sink	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sink	det
24	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fell	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 rinsing	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cook	det
27	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rinsing	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 rinsing	aux
29	rinsing	rinse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sink	acl:relcl
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 rinsing	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		the Darning needle		proudly property	tree rules
2	raise up	participle	the Darning needle not said here	needle			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
3	fall	past	needle		the dress	into the sink	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme out dress=Initial_Location into sink=Destination
4	rinse out	past · progressive	the cook	the sink			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source

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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