The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 74

‘The walls white and I black--what a pretty contrast it makes!’ said the Darning-needle.

Who acts: contrast · What happens: make, say · To what, where: pretty contrast, 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 (contrast), 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	_	4 white	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 walls	det
3	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 white	nsubj
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	ccomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 black	cc
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 black	nsubj
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 white	conj
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 white	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 contrast	det
11	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 contrast	amod
12	contrast	contrast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 what	nsubj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 makes	nsubj
14	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 contrast	acl:relcl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 white	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 white	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 needle	det
19	Darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 needle	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Darning	punct
21	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	contrast	a pretty contrast not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material contrast=Product
2	say speech: assert	past		the Darning needle					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent needle=Topic

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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