The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 52

’’ They held themselves proudly one against the other, although they were of different sizes.

Who acts: Fingers · What happens: hold, be · To what, where: Fingers

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	’’	''	PUNCT	_	3 held	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 held	nsubj
3	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 held	obj
5	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	6 one	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 held	obj
7	against	against	ADP	_	9 other	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 other	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sizes	punct
11	although	although	SCONJ	_	16 sizes	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sizes	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sizes	cop
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 sizes	case
15	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sizes	amod
16	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 held	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	Fingers = finger	Fingers = finger					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme one=Eventuality
2	is	past	Fingers = finger					of different sizes	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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