The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 39

and the needle promptly slipped from her fingers and flew about the room like lightning.

Who acts: needle · What happens: slip, fly

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 (needle), 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 slipped	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 needle	det
3	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slipped	nsubj
4	promptly	promptly	ADV	_	5 slipped	advmod
5	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 fingers	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fingers	nmod:poss
8	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slipped	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 flew	cc
10	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slipped	conj
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 room	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flew	obl
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 lightning	case
15	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 room	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 slipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	the needle					from needle's fingers; promptly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from finger=Co-Patient
2	fly	past	the needle not said here					about the room like lightning	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about room=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 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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