Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 31

“Rag!” said the box-iron; and went proudly over the collar: for she fancied she was a steam-engine, that would go on the railroad and draw the waggons.

Who acts: Rag, that · What happens: say, go, fancy, be, draw · To what, where: box iron, collar, steam engine, railroad, waggons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rag, that), 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	_	2 Rag	punct
2	Rag	rag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Rag	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Rag	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 iron	det
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 iron	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 box	punct
9	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
13	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 collar	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 collar	det
16	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 fancied	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 fancied	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fancied	nsubj
20	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 engine	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 engine	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 engine	det
24	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 engine	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 steam	punct
26	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fancied	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 go	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 go	aux
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 engine	parataxis
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 railroad	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 railroad	det
33	railroad	railroad	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 go	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 draw	cc
35	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 go	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 waggons	det
37	waggons	waggon	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 draw	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Rag	the box iron			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent iron=Topic
2	go	past	Rag not said here		the collar	proudly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over collar=Initial_Location
3	fancy	past	Rag				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	Rag	a steam engine			tree rules
5	go	would	that		the railroad		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on railroad=Location
6	draw	infinitive	that not said here	the waggons			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waggon=Theme

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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