Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 17

I am too fine for this world," said the darning-needle, as she lay in the gutter; "but I know who I am, and that is always some comfort."

Who acts: I, needle, that · What happens: be, say, lie, know · To what, where: darning needle, gutter, comfort · 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, that), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fine	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 fine	advmod
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 world	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 needle	det
12	darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 needle	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 darning	punct
14	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 lay	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lay	nsubj
18	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 gutter	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 gutter	det
21	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 know	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 know	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 know	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 know	nsubj
26	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	parataxis
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	26 know	ccomp
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 who	nsubj
29	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 who	cop
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 comfort	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 comfort	cc
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 comfort	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 comfort	cop
34	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	36 comfort	advmod
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 comfort	det
36	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			for this world; fine property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the darning needle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent needle=Topic
3	lie in a quote	past	needle		the gutter		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in gutter=Location
4	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	present	I				tree rules
6	is a	present	that	some comfort		always 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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