Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 28

One day something lying close to the darning-needle glittered so splendidly that she thought it was a diamond; yet it was only a piece of broken bottle.

Who acts: needle, cook · What happens: lie, glitter, think, be, break · To what, where: diamond, piece · 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 (needle, cook), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 something	compound
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
4	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 something	acl
5	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 lying	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 needle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 needle	det
8	darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 needle	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 darning	punct
10	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obl
11	glittered	glitter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 something	acl
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 splendidly	advmod
13	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	_	11 glittered	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 thought	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 glittered	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 diamond	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 diamond	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 diamond	det
20	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thought	ccomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 piece	punct
22	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	27 piece	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 piece	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 piece	cop
25	only	only	ADV	_	27 piece	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 piece	det
27	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 something	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 bottle	case
29	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 bottle	amod
30	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 piece	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 something	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund			to the darning needle; close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	glitter	participle			splendidly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	needle			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	cook	a diamond		tree rules
5	is a	past	cook	a piece	of broken bottle	tree rules
6	break	participle				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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