The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 43

But it was a bit of bottle-glass, and because it sparkled the Darning-needle spoke to it, and gave herself out as a breast-pin.

Who acts: knot · What happens: be, sparkle, speak, give out · To what, where: bit, Darning needle, knot, 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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 bit	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bit	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bit	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 glass	case
7	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 glass	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 bottle	punct
9	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spoke	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 spoke	cc
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 sparkled	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sparkled	nsubj
14	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 spoke	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 needle	det
16	Darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 needle	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Darning	punct
18	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sparkled	obj
19	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bit	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 spoke	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gave	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 gave	cc
24	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 spoke	conj
25	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 gave	iobj
26	out	out	ADP	_	24 gave	compound:prt
27	as	as	ADP	_	31 pin	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pin	det
29	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pin	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 breast	punct
31	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gave	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	knot	a bit		of bottle glass	tree rules
2	sparkle	past	knot	the Darning needle			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent needle=Theme
3	speak speech: other	past			knot		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Agent
4	give out	past			needle	as a breast pin	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent herself=Theme

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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