The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 63
And she sat there very proudly, thinking lofty thoughts.
Who acts: ostentation · What happens: sit, think · To what, where: lofty thoughts
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 (ostentation), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sat | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 proudly | advmod |
| 6 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 3 sat | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thinking | punct |
| 8 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sat | advcl |
| 9 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thoughts | amod |
| 10 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thinking | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | ostentation | there | proudly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | ostentation not said here | lofty thoughts | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thought=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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