The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 68

One day two street-urchins were playing and wading in the gutter, picking up old nails, pennies, and such things.

Who acts: two street urchins · What happens: play, wade, pick up · To what, where: such things, gutter, old nails

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 (two street urchins), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 playing	obl:unmarked
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 urchins	nummod
4	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 urchins	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 street	punct
6	urchins	urchin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 playing	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 playing	aux
8	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wading	cc
10	wading	wade	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 playing	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 gutter	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gutter	det
13	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wading	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 picking	punct
15	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 playing	parataxis
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 picking	compound:prt
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nails	amod
18	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 picking	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pennies	punct
20	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 nails	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 things	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 things	cc
23	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 things	amod
24	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 playing	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 playing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	play	past · progressive	two street urchins	such things		day	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wade	gerund	two street urchins not said here		the gutter		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gutter=Trajectory
3	pick up	gerund		old nails and pennies			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=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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