Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 11

"So now I am a breast-pin," said the darning-needle; "I knew very well I should come to honor some day: merit is sure to rise;" and she laughed, quietly to herself, for of course no one ever saw a darning-needle laugh.

Who acts: breast pin, merit, needle, one · What happens: be, say, know, come, honor, rise · To what, where: breast pin, darning needle, needle, needle laugh · 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 (breast pin, merit, needle, one), 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	_	9 pin	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	3 now	advmod
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 pin	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 pin	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pin	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pin	det
7	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pin	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 breast	punct
9	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pin	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 pin	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 needle	det
14	darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 needle	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 darning	punct
16	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 knew	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 knew	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 knew	nsubj
20	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 come	advcl
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 well	advmod
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 knew	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 come	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 honor	mark
27	honor	honor	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	xcomp
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 honor	obl:unmarked
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 sure	punct
31	merit	merit	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sure	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 sure	cop
33	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	35 rise	mark
35	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 sure	xcomp
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 laughed	cc
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 laughed	nsubj
40	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 quietly	punct
42	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	40 laughed	advmod
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 herself	case
44	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 laughed	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 one	punct
46	for	for	ADP	_	50 one	case
47	of	of	ADP	_	46 for	fixed
48	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 of	fixed
49	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	50 one	det
50	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 laughed	parataxis
51	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	52 saw	advmod
52	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 one	acl:relcl
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 laugh	det
54	darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 needle	compound
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 darning	punct
56	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 laugh	compound
57	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 saw	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	a breast pin = pin	a breast pin		now		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a breast pin	the darning needle				tree rules
3	know in a quote	past	a breast pin = pin				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	come in a quote	should	a breast pin = pin					tree rules
5	honor in a quote	to-infinitive	a breast pin = pin not said here			day		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	present	merit				sure property	tree rules
7	rise in a quote	to-infinitive	merit not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	laugh	past	needle		needle		quietly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
9	see	past	no one not said here	a needle laugh		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer laugh=Stimulus

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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