The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 70

‘Oh, oh!’ cried out one, as he pricked himself with the Darning-needle; ‘he is a fine fellow though!’

Who acts: sunbeam · What happens: cry out, prick, be · To what, where: one, sunbeam, fine fellow

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 (sunbeam), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 cried	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	oh	oh	INTJ	_	2 Oh	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 cried	compound:prt
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pricked	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 pricked	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pricked	nsubj
13	pricked	prick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 pricked	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 needle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 needle	det
17	Darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 needle	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Darning	punct
19	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pricked	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 fellow	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fellow	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 fellow	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fellow	det
25	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fellow	amod
26	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	parataxis
27	though	though	ADV	_	26 fellow	advmod
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 fellow	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	past		one		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
2	prick	past	sunbeam	sunbeam	with the Darning needle	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent himself=Patient with needle=Instrument
3	is a	present	sunbeam	a fine fellow	though property	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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