The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 8
The upper leather was unstitched and had to be sewn together.
What happens: unstitch, have, sew · To what, where: upper leather
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: 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 | 3 leather | det |
| 2 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 leather | amod |
| 3 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unstitched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unstitched | aux:pass |
| 5 | unstitched | unstitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unstitched | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sewn | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sewn | aux:pass |
| 10 | sewn | sew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 had | xcomp |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 sewn | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unstitched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unstitch | past · passive | the upper leather | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | sew | to-infinitive · passive | together property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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