The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 73

‘Here comes an egg-shell sailing along!’ said the boys, and they stuck the Darning-needle into the egg-shell.

Who acts: egg shell, boys · What happens: come, sail, say, stick · To what, where: egg shell, boys, 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 (egg shell, boys), 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	_	3 comes	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 comes	advmod
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shell	det
5	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shell	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 egg	punct
7	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obj
8	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 shell	acl
9	along	along	ADV	_	8 sailing	advmod
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boys	det
14	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stuck	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stuck	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stuck	nsubj
18	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 needle	det
20	Darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 needle	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Darning	punct
22	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stuck	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	27 shell	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 shell	det
25	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shell	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 egg	punct
27	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stuck	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present		a egg shell	here		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme
2	sail	gerund	a egg shell not said here			along property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past		the boys			tree rules
4	stick	past	boys = boy	the Darning needle	the egg shell		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent needle=Theme into shell=Destination

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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