The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 42
One day something thick lay near her which glittered so brightly that the Darning-needle thought it must be a diamond.
Who acts: something, Darning needle, knot · What happens: lie, glitter, think, be · To what, where: diamond · 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 (something, Darning needle, knot), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 something | amod |
| 5 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 glittered | mark |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 glittered | nmod:poss |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 glittered | nsubj |
| 9 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | advcl |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 brightly | advmod |
| 11 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 9 glittered | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 thought | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 needle | det |
| 14 | Darning | darning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 needle | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Darning | punct |
| 16 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 glittered | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 diamond | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 diamond | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 diamond | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 diamond | det |
| 22 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | something | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | glitter | past | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the Darning needle | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | must | knot | a diamond | 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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