Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 24

"You old rag," said the flat-iron, driving proudly over the collar, for she fancied herself a steam-engine, which rolls over the railway and draws carriages. "

Who acts: You, old rag, rag, steam engine · What happens: rag, say, drive, fancy, roll, draw · To what, where: flat iron, collar, rag, railway, carriages · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, old rag, rag, steam engine), 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	_	4 rag	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 rag	nsubj
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rag	amod
4	rag	rag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rag	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 rag	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 iron	det
9	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 iron	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 flat	punct
11	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 driving	punct
13	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
14	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	13 driving	advmod
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 collar	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 collar	det
17	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 driving	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fancied	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 fancied	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fancied	nsubj
21	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
22	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 fancied	obj
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	21 fancied	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rolls	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 rolls	nsubj
29	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 engine	acl:relcl
30	over	over	ADP	_	32 railway	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 railway	det
32	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rolls	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 draws	cc
34	draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 rolls	conj
35	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 draws	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 fancied	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 fancied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rag in a quote		You				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	old rag	the flat iron			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent iron=Topic
3	drive	gerund	old rag not said here		the collar	proudly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over collar=Trajectory
4	fancy	past	rag	rag			tree rules
5	roll	present	a steam engine		the railway		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over railway=Trajectory
6	draw	present	a steam engine not said here	carriages			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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