The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 82
‘Crack!’ said the egg-shell as a wagon-wheel went over it.
Who acts: Crack, wagon wheel · What happens: say, go · To what, where: egg shell, Crack · 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 (Crack, wagon wheel), 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 | _ | 2 Crack | punct |
| 2 | Crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Crack | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Crack | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shell | det |
| 7 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shell | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 egg | punct |
| 9 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 went | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wheel | det |
| 12 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wheel | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 wagon | punct |
| 14 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Crack | the egg shell | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | a wagon wheel | Crack | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over it=Initial_Location |
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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