Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 29
The darning-needle spoke to it, because it sparkled, and represented herself as a breast-pin. "
Who acts: darning needle, cook · What happens: speak, sparkle, represent · To what, where: cook, needle · 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 (darning 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 needle | det |
| 2 | darning | darning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needle | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 darning | punct |
| 4 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spoke | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sparkled | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 sparkled | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sparkled | nsubj |
| 11 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoke | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 represented | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 represented | cc |
| 14 | represented | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoke | conj |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 represented | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 pin | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pin | det |
| 18 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pin | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 breast | punct |
| 20 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 represented | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the darning needle | cook | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | sparkle | past | cook | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | represent | past | the darning needle not said here | needle | as a breast pin | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent herself=Theme as pin=Attribute |
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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