The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 29

‘I am too fine for this world!’ said she as she lay in the gutter; ‘but I know who I am, and that is always a little satisfaction!’

Who acts: I, needle, that · What happens: be, say, lie, know · To what, where: gutter, little satisfaction · 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 (I, needle, that), 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	_	5 fine	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 fine	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 fine	advmod
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 world	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fine	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 fine	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 fine	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 lay	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lay	nsubj
15	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 gutter	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gutter	det
18	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lay	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 know	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 know	nsubj
23	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 am	nsubj
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 am	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 know	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 satisfaction	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 satisfaction	cc
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 satisfaction	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 satisfaction	cop
31	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	34 satisfaction	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 satisfaction	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 satisfaction	amod
34	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	parataxis
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 satisfaction	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 satisfaction	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			for this world; fine property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	needle				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lie	past	needle		the gutter		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in gutter=Location
4	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	present	that	a little satisfaction		always property	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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