The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 50
‘Of noble birth!’ said the Darning-needle; ‘no indeed, but proud!
Who acts: noble birth · What happens: say · To what, where: Darning 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 (noble birth), 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 birth | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 birth | case |
| 3 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 birth | amod |
| 4 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 birth | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 birth | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 needle | det |
| 9 | Darning | darning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 needle | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Darning | punct |
| 11 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 indeed | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 indeed | punct |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 indeed | det |
| 15 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 proud | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 proud | cc |
| 18 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | parataxis |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | noble birth | the Darning needle | indeed property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent needle=Topic |
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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