--- title: ‘I have come from a lady’s work-box,’ said Darning-needle, ‘and this… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I have come from a lady’s work-box,’ said Darning-needle, ‘and this lady was a cook; she had five fingers on each hand; anything so proud as these fingers I have never seen! Who acts: I, Darning needle, lady, needle. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-need --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/51/47/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [A Story About a Darning-needle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/51/) / 47 # The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 47 ‘I have come from a lady’s work-box,’ said Darning-needle, ‘and this lady was a cook; she had five fingers on each hand; anything so proud as these fingers I have never seen! **Who acts:** I, Darning needle, lady, needle · **What happens:** come, say, be, have, not see · **To what, where:** work box, cook, five fingers, hand · **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 (I, Darning needle, lady, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:51:47 # text = ‘I have come from a lady’s work-box,’ said Darning-needle, ‘and this lady was a cook; she had five fingers on each hand; anything so proud as these fingers I have never seen! 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 ccomp _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’s 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 Darning Darning PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 ‘ ‘ PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 29 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 35 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 33 conj _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 38 as as ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 40 det _ _ 40 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 41 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 44 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ! ! PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present · perfect | I | | | a lady's work box | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from box=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Darning needle and a cook | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is a** | past | this lady | a cook | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | past | needle | five fingers | | each hand | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | | 5 | **not** **see** | present · perfect | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/51/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/51/48/) - ↑ back to [A Story About a Darning-needle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/51/)