The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 62
But that is my pride, which is a sign of respectability!’
Who acts: that, pride · What happens: be · To what, where: pride, sign
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 (that, pride), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 pride | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 pride | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pride | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pride | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sign | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 sign | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sign | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sign | det |
| 10 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pride | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 respectability | case |
| 12 | respectability | respectability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sign | nmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 sign | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 sign | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | my pride | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | my pride | a sign | of respectability | 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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