The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 78
But she was not sea-sick, and did not give herself up.
Who acts: mother · What happens: not be, not give up · To what, where: mother
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 (mother), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 sick | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sick | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sick | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 sick | advmod |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sick | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 sea | punct |
| 7 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 give | cc |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 give | advmod |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sick | conj |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 give | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | mother | sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not give up | past · do-support | mother not said here | mother | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Source |
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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