The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 5
‘It is all right!’ said the Fingers, seizing her round the waist.
Who acts: ground · What happens: be, say, seize · To what, where: Fingers, 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 (ground), 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 | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 right | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 right | advmod |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fingers | det |
| 10 | Fingers | Finger | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seizing | punct |
| 12 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seizing | obj |
| 14 | round | round | ADP | _ | 16 waist | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 waist | det |
| 16 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seizing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | ground | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Fingers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent finger=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seize | gerund | needle | round the waist | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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