The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 58

‘And now we are sitting and shining here!’ said the bit of bottle-glass.

Who acts: ‘, bit · What happens: sit, shine, say · 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 (‘, bit), 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	‘	‘	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	nsubj
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 sitting	cc
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sitting	advmod
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 sitting	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shining	cc
8	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sitting	conj
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 shining	advmod
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bit	det
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 glass	case
16	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 glass	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 bottle	punct
18	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bit	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	sit	present · progressive	‘		now	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shine	gerund	‘ not said here	here		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the bit of bottle glass			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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