The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 39
What is written on it is long ago forgotten, and yet how proud it is!
Who acts: cook · What happens: write, forget, be · To what, where: cook
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 (cook), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 written | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 written | aux:pass |
| 3 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 forgotten | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 forgotten | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 ago | advmod |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 forgotten | advmod |
| 9 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 written | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 proud | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 proud | cc |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 proud | advmod |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 proud | advmod |
| 14 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 written | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 proud | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 proud | cop |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present · passive | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | forget | present · passive | cook | ago property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | cook | yet | proud 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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