The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 83

‘Oh! how it presses!’ said the Darning-needle.

Who acts: wheel · What happens: press, say · To what, where: 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 (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	_	9 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 presses	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 presses	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 presses	nsubj
6	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 presses	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 presses	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 needle	det
11	Darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 needle	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Darning	punct
13	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	present	wheel						vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past		the Darning needle					tree rules

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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