The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 32
‘Just look how they sail along!’ said the Darning-needle.
Who acts: kinds · What happens: look, sail, 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: who acts (kinds), 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 | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 look | advmod |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 sail | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sail | nsubj |
| 6 | sail | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | advcl |
| 7 | along | along | ADV | _ | 6 sail | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 needle | det |
| 12 | Darning | darning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 needle | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Darning | punct |
| 14 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | sail | present | kinds = kind | along property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | 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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