The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 57

There was too much ostentation, and so I came away.’

Who acts: much ostentation, I · What happens: be, come away

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 (much ostentation, I), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ostentation	amod
5	ostentation	ostentation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	much ostentation			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come away	past	I					away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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