The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 35

There goes a shaving thinking of nothing in the world but of itself, a mere chip!

What happens: go, shave, think · To what, where: shaving thinking, nothing

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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 goes	expl
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thinking	det
4	shaving	shave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 thinking	amod
5	thinking	thinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 nothing	case
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 thinking	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nothing	nmod
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 itself	cc
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 itself	case
13	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 nothing	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 chip	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 chip	det
16	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 chip	amod
17	chip	chip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	a shaving thinking of nothing	there	a mere chip obl	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thinking=Theme
2	shave	gerund				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think		nothing			nom thinking «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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