Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 15

Now I am going on a journey," said the needle, as she floated away with the dirty water, "I do hope I shall not be lost."

Who acts: I, needle · What happens: go, say, float away, hope, not lose · To what, where: journey, needle, I · 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 (I, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 going	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 journey	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 journey	det
7	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 needle	det
12	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 floated	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 floated	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 floated	nsubj
16	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 floated	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 water	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
20	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 water	amod
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 floated	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hope	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 hope	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 hope	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 hope	aux
26	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 floated	conj
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 lost	nsubj
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 lost	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 lost	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 lost	aux:pass
31	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 hope	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	I		a journey	now		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the needle				tree rules
3	float away in a quote	past	needle				with the dirty water; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hope	present · do-support	I					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	not lose	shall · passive		I				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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