The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 30

And the Darning-needle kept her proud bearing and did not lose her good-temper.

Who acts: Darning needle, needle · What happens: keep, not lose, temper · To what, where: proud bearing, good temper

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), 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	_	6 kept	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 needle	det
3	Darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 needle	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Darning	punct
5	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bearing	nmod:poss
8	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bearing	amod
9	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lose	cc
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lose	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 lose	advmod
13	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 kept	conj
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 temper	nmod:poss
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 temper	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 good	punct
17	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lose	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past	the Darning needle	needle's proud bearing	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bearing=Theme
2	not lose	past · do-support	the Darning needle not said here	needle's good temper	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality
3	temper		needle		nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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