Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 32
"I have been in a lady's work-box," said the darning-needle, "and this lady was the cook.
Who acts: work box, lady · What happens: be, say · To what, where: work box, darning needle, cook · 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 (work box, lady), 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 | _ | 11 box | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 box | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 box | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 box | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 box | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 box | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 lady | case |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 box | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 work | punct |
| 11 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 box | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 box | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 needle | det |
| 16 | darning | darning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 needle | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 darning | punct |
| 18 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 needle | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 needle | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 cook | cc |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 lady | det |
| 23 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cook | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 cook | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cook | det |
| 26 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 needle | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present · perfect | a lady's work box = box | a lady's work box | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a lady's work box | the darning needle and the cook | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent needle=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | this lady | the cook | 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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