The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 54

Dip-into-everything, the second finger, dipped into sweet things as well as sour things, pointed to the sun and the moon, and guided the pen when they wrote.

Who acts: Fingers · What happens: dip, point, guide, write · To what, where: sweet things, sour things, sun, pen

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	Dip	dip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 everything	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 everything	punct
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 everything	case
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 into	punct
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 finger	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 finger	det
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 finger	amod
9	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 everything	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dipped	punct
11	dipped	dip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 everything	parataxis
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 things	case
13	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 things	amod
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dipped	obl
15	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	19 things	cc
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 as	fixed
17	as	as	ADP	_	15 as	fixed
18	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 things	amod
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dipped	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pointed	punct
21	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 things	acl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 sun	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sun	det
24	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pointed	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 moon	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 moon	det
27	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sun	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 guided	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 guided	cc
30	guided	guide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 everything	parataxis
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pen	det
32	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 guided	obj
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 wrote	advmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 wrote	nsubj
35	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 guided	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 everything	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	dip	participle				sweet things	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into thing=Location
2	point	participle		sour things not said here	the sun and the moon		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sun=Recipient
3	guide	past		the pen			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Theme
4	write	past	Fingers = finger				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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