Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 1

There was once a darning-needle who thought herself so fine that she fancied she must be fit for embroidery. "

Who acts: darning needle, needle · What happens: be, think, fancy · To what, where: needle

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The 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 (darning needle, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 needle	det
5	darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needle	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 darning	punct
7	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 needle	acl:relcl
10	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 thought	obj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 fine	advmod
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thought	xcomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 fancied	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fancied	nsubj
15	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fine	advcl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fit	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 fit	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 fit	cop
19	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fancied	ccomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 embroidery	case
21	embroidery	embroidery	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fit	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a darning needle		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	a darning needle	needle		fine property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herself=Theme
3	fancy	past	needle				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	must	needle			for embroidery; fit property	tree rules

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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