The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 48

And yet they were only there to take me out of the work-box and to put me back again!’

Who acts: Fingers · What happens: be, take, put back · To what, where: me, work box

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 (Fingers), 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	_	8 take	cc
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 there	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 take	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 take	mark
8	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 take	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	15 box	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 box	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 box	det
13	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 box	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 work	punct
15	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 put	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 put	mark
18	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 take	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 put	obj
20	back	back	ADV	_	18 put	advmod
21	again	again	ADV	_	18 put	advmod
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Fingers = finger				yet	there property	tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive		me		the work box			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme out box=Initial_Location
3	put back	to-infinitive			me		again		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal

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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