Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 18
So the darning-needle kept up her proud behavior, and did not lose her good humor.
Who acts: needle · What happens: keep up, not lose, humor · To what, where: darning needle, good humor
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 kept | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 needle | det |
| 3 | darning | darning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 needle | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 darning | punct |
| 5 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 kept | compound:prt |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 behavior | nmod:poss |
| 9 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 behavior | amod |
| 10 | behavior | behavior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lose | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lose | cc |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lose | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 lose | advmod |
| 15 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 kept | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 humor | nmod:poss |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 humor | amod |
| 18 | humor | humor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lose | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep up | participle · passive | the darning needle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not lose | past · do-support | needle's good humor | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent humor=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | humor | needle | nom humor «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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