The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 56
Goldband, the fourth, had a gold sash round his waist; and little Playman did nothing at all, and was the more proud.
Who acts: Goldband, little Playman · What happens: have, do, be · To what, where: gold sash, nothing, all
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 (Goldband, little Playman), 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 | Goldband | Goldband | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fourth | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fourth | det |
| 4 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Goldband | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Goldband | punct |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sash | det |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sash | compound |
| 9 | sash | sash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 waist | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 waist | nmod:poss |
| 12 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sash | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 did | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 did | cc |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Playman | amod |
| 16 | Playman | Playman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | conj |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 did | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 nothing | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 proud | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 proud | cc |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 proud | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 proud | det |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 proud | advmod |
| 26 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 had | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Goldband | a gold sash | round Goldband's waist | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sash=Patient | |||
| 2 | do | past | little Playman | nothing | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | is | past | proud property | 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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