The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 31
All kinds of things swam over her--shavings, bits of straw, and scraps of old newspapers.
Who acts: kinds, needle · What happens: swim, shave · To what, where: scraps, shavings
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 (kinds, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 kinds | det |
| 2 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swam | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 things | case |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kinds | nmod |
| 5 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 shavings | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 shavings | nmod:poss |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 shavings | punct |
| 9 | shavings | shaving | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swam | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bits | punct |
| 11 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shavings | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 straw | case |
| 13 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bits | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 scraps | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 scraps | cc |
| 16 | scraps | scrap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swam | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 newspapers | case |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 newspapers | amod |
| 19 | newspapers | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 scraps | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | all kinds of things | scraps of old newspapers | needle's shavings | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over shaving=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | shave | needle | nom shaving «act 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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