Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 20
See how they sail," said the darning-needle; "they do not know what is under them.
Who acts: you, sorts, darning needle · What happens: see, sail, say, not know, be · 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, sorts, darning 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 sail | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sail | nsubj |
| 4 | sail | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sail | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 needle | det |
| 9 | darning | darning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 needle | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 darning | punct |
| 11 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 know | advmod |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 See | advcl |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 them | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 them | cop |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 know | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | sail | present | sorts = sort | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the darning needle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not know | present · do-support | sorts = sort | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | present | under pieces = piece | 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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