The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 47

‘I have come from a lady’s work-box,’ said Darning-needle, ‘and this lady was a cook; she had five fingers on each hand; anything so proud as these fingers I have never seen!

Who acts: I, Darning needle, lady, needle · What happens: come, say, be, have, not see · To what, where: work box, cook, five fingers, hand · 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 (I, Darning needle, lady, needle), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	11 box	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lady	det
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 box	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 lady	case
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 box	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 work	punct
11	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Darning	Darning	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 needle	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Darning	punct
17	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cook	punct
19	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	25 cook	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cook	cc
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 lady	det
22	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cook	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cook	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cook	det
25	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 needle	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
29	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 fingers	nummod
30	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 had	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 hand	case
32	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	33 hand	det
33	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 anything	punct
35	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 hand	conj
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 proud	advmod
37	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 anything	amod
38	as	as	ADP	_	40 fingers	case
39	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	40 fingers	det
40	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 proud	obl
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 seen	nsubj
42	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 seen	aux
43	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	44 seen	advmod
44	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 anything	acl:relcl
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	present · perfect	I		a lady's work box	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from box=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Darning needle and a cook			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	past	this lady	a cook		tree rules
4	have	past	needle	five fingers	each hand	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient
5	not see	present · perfect	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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