The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 72

The sealing-wax had gone, and she had become quite black; but black makes one look very slim, and so she thought she was even finer than before.

Who acts: sealing wax, needle · What happens: go, become, make, think, be · To what, where: one look

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 (sealing wax, needle), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wax	det
2	sealing	sealing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wax	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 sealing	punct
4	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 become	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 become	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 become	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 become	aux
11	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 gone	conj
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 black	advmod
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 become	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 makes	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 makes	cc
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 makes	amod
17	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	advcl
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 look	nummod
19	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 makes	obj
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 slim	advmod
21	slim	slim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 makes	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thought	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 thought	cc
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 thought	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 thought	nsubj
26	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	advcl
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 finer	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 finer	cop
29	even	even	ADV	_	30 finer	advmod
30	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 thought	xcomp
31	than	than	ADP	_	32 before	case
32	before	before	ADV	_	30 finer	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	the sealing wax			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past · perfect	needle		black property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	make	present	the sealing wax not said here	one look	slim property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset look=Product
4	think speech: other	past	needle			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	needle		fine 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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