The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 26
‘Now I am off on my travels!’ said the Darning-needle.
What happens: travel, say · To what, where: 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: 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 | _ | 8 travels | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 am | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 am | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 travels | advcl |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 am | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 8 travels | mark |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 travels | nmod:poss |
| 8 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 travels | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 travels | 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 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | present | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 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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