The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 46
And each believed that the other was something very costly; and they both said how very proud the world must be of them.
Who acts: each, kinds · What happens: believe, be, say · 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 (each, kinds), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 believed | cc |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 believed | nsubj |
| 3 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 other | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 other | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 believed | xcomp |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 other | cop |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 was | nsubj |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 costly | advmod |
| 10 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 something | amod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 14 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 believed | conj |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 proud | advmod |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 proud | advmod |
| 18 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 proud | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 them | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 them | cop |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 proud | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | each | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | each not said here | other property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | kinds = kind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | must | kinds = kind not said here | of bits = bit | 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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