The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 64
So she was given three large needles, a plough-wheel, and three nuts, which she was to take great care of.
Who acts: leg · What happens: give, be · To what, where: leg
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leg), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 given | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 given | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux:pass |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 needles | nummod |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 needles | amod |
| 7 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 given | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wheel | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wheel | det |
| 10 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wheel | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 plough | punct |
| 12 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 needles | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 nuts | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 nuts | cc |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 nuts | nummod |
| 16 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 given | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 take | obj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 take | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 take | cop |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 nuts | acl:relcl |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 care | amod |
| 24 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 take | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | leg | three nuts obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient needle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | leg | take property | 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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