The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 9
‘This is common work!’ said the Darning-needle.
Who acts: This, common work · What happens: be, say · To what, where: common work, 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 (This, common work), 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 | _ | 5 work | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 work | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 work | cop |
| 4 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 work | amod |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 work | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 work | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 needle | det |
| 10 | Darning | darning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 needle | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Darning | punct |
| 12 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | common work | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | common work | 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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