Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 10

"This needle is quite useless for sewing now," said the fingers; but they still held it fast, and the cook dropped some sealing-wax on the needle, and fastened her handkerchief with it in front.

Who acts: needle, fingers, cook · What happens: be, sew, say, hold, drop, fasten · To what, where: point, sealing wax, needle, handkerchief, front · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (needle, fingers, cook), 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	_	6 useless	punct
2	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 needle	det
3	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 useless	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 useless	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 useless	advmod
6	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 sewing	mark
8	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 useless	advcl
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 sewing	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 useless	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 useless	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 useless	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fingers	det
14	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 held	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 held	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 held	nsubj
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 held	advmod
19	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 useless	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 held	obj
21	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 held	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dropped	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dropped	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cook	det
25	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dropped	nsubj
26	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 useless	parataxis
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 wax	det
28	sealing	sealing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wax	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 sealing	punct
30	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dropped	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 needle	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 needle	det
33	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wax	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fastened	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 fastened	cc
36	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 dropped	conj
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 handkerchief	nmod:poss
38	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fastened	obj
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 fastened	obl
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 front	case
42	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fastened	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 useless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	this needle				useless property	tree rules
2	sew in a quote	gerund	this needle not said here			now		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the fingers					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	hold	past	fingers = finger	point		still	fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	drop	past	the cook	some sealing wax	the needle			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wax=Theme on needle=Destination
6	fasten	past	the cook not said here	needle's handkerchief	front		with cook	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient with it=Co-Patient

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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