Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 31

"Why yes, something of the kind," he replied; and so each believed the other to be very valuable, and then they began to talk about the world, and the conceited people in it.

Who acts: crack, each, straws · What happens: reply, believe, be, begin, talk · To what, where: other

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 (crack, each, straws), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 something	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 yes	punct
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 Why	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 kind	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kind	det
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 something	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 replied	nsubj
12	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 something	parataxis
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 believed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 believed	cc
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 believed	advmod
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 believed	nsubj
17	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 replied	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 other	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 believed	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	23 valuable	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 valuable	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 valuable	advmod
23	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 other	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 began	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 began	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 began	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 began	nsubj
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 believed	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 talk	mark
30	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 began	xcomp
31	about	about	ADP	_	33 world	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 talk	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 people	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 people	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 people	det
37	conceited	conceited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 people	amod
38	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 began	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 people	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	crack				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	believe	past	each	the other			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus
3	is	to-infinitive	each not said here			valuable property	tree rules
4	begin	past	straws = straw		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	talk	to-infinitive	straws = straw not said here			about the world	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about world=Topic

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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