The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 71

‘I am not a fellow; I am a young lady!’ said the Darning-needle; but no one heard.

Who acts: I, fellow, one · What happens: not be, be, say, hear · To what, where: fellow, young lady, Darning needle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, fellow, one), 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	_	6 fellow	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 fellow	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fellow	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fellow	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fellow	det
6	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 lady	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 lady	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lady	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lady	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lady	amod
12	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fellow	parataxis
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 lady	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 lady	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	15 said	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 heard	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 heard	cc
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heard	nsubj
24	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 said	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not is a	present	I	a fellow	tree rules
2	is a	present	I	a young lady	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	a fellow	the Darning needle	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent needle=Topic
4	hear	participle	no one		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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