The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 38
‘Needle, needle, stitch away, Make my chamber bright and gay,’
Who acts: you · What happens: stitch away, make · To what, where: Needle, chamber
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 6 stitch | punct |
| 2 | Needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stitch | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 needle | punct |
| 4 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Needle | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Needle | punct |
| 6 | stitch | stitch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 stitch | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Make | punct |
| 9 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 stitch | conj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 11 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Make | obj |
| 12 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Make | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gay | cc |
| 14 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bright | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stitch | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 stitch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stitch away | imperative | you not said here | Needle and needle | away property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | infinitive | you not said here | my chamber | bright property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chamber=Product |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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