Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 2

Hold me tight," she would say to the fingers, when they took her up, "don't let me fall; if you do I shall never be found again, I am so very fine."

Who acts: you, needle, fingers, me, I · What happens: hold, say, take up, not let, fall, do · To what, where: me, fingers, 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 (you, needle, fingers, me), 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	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obj
3	tight	tight	ADV	_	1 Hold	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 say	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hold	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 fingers	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fingers	det
11	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 say	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 took	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	parataxis
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 took	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 let	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 let	advmod
22	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 took	advcl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 fine	punct
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 do	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 do	nsubj
28	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 fine	advcl
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 found	nsubj
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 found	aux
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 found	advmod
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 found	aux:pass
33	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 do	acl:relcl
34	again	again	ADV	_	33 found	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 do	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 fine	nsubj
37	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 fine	cop
38	so	so	ADV	_	40 fine	advmod
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 fine	advmod
40	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hold	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	me			tight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	would	needle		the fingers			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to finger=Recipient
3	take up in a quote	past	fingers = finger		needle			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
4	not let	infinitive · do-support	fingers = finger not said here	me				tree rules
5	fall	infinitive	me not said here					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	do a condition, not said to happen	present	you					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not find	shall · passive		I		again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
8	is	present	I				fine 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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