Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 25

There swims a piece of newspaper; what is written upon it has been forgotten long ago, and yet it gives itself airs.

Who acts: newspaper · What happens: swim, write, forget, give · To what, where: piece, newspaper, airs

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 (newspaper), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 swims	expl
2	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 piece	det
4	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swims	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 newspaper	case
6	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 piece	nmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 written	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 written	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 written	aux:pass
10	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 swims	advcl
11	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	15 forgotten	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 forgotten	nsubj:pass
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 forgotten	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 forgotten	aux:pass
15	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 written	advcl
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 ago	advmod
17	ago	ago	ADV	_	15 forgotten	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gives	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gives	cc
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	22 gives	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gives	nsubj
22	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 swims	parataxis
23	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 gives	iobj
24	airs	air	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gives	iobj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 swims	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present		a piece of newspaper		there			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme piece=Trajectory
2	write	present · passive							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	forget	present · perfect · passive		newspaper				ago property	tree rules
4	give	present	newspaper		airs		yet		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient air=Theme

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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