The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 36
There goes a straw--well, how it does twist and twirl, to be sure!
Who acts: straw · What happens: go, do, be · To what, where: straw, twist
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 (straw), 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 | 4 straw | det |
| 4 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 goes | obj |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
| 6 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 2 goes | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 does | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 does | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 does | nsubj |
| 10 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 goes | conj |
| 11 | twist | twist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 does | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 twirl | cc |
| 13 | twirl | twirl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 twist | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sure | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sure | cop |
| 17 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 goes | conj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | a straw | there | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location straw=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | present | straw | twist and twirl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twist=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | sure 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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