The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 69
It was rather dirty work, but it was a great delight to them.
Who acts: gutter · What happens: be · To what, where: dirty work, great delight, pennies
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 (gutter), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 work | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 work | cop |
| 3 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 work | advmod |
| 4 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 work | amod |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 delight | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 delight | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 delight | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 delight | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 delight | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 delight | amod |
| 12 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 work | appos |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 delight | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | gutter | dirty work | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | gutter | a great delight | pennies = penny | 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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