Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 33

She had on each hand five fingers, and anything so conceited as these five fingers I have never seen; and yet they were only employed to take me out of the box and to put me back again."

Who acts: box, I · What happens: have, not see, employ, take, put back · To what, where: five fingers, hand, fingers, me, box

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 (box, I), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 hand	case
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 hand	det
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 fingers	nummod
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 anything	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 anything	cc
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 had	parataxis
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 conceited	advmod
12	conceited	conceited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 anything	amod
13	as	as	ADP	_	16 fingers	case
14	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 fingers	det
15	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 fingers	nummod
16	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 conceited	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 seen	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 seen	aux
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 seen	advmod
20	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 fingers	acl:relcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 employed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 employed	cc
23	yet	yet	ADV	_	27 employed	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 employed	nsubj:pass
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 employed	aux:pass
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 employed	advmod
27	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 take	mark
29	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 employed	xcomp
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 take	obj
31	out	out	ADP	_	34 box	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 box	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 box	det
34	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 take	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 put	cc
36	to	to	PART	_	37 put	mark
37	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 take	conj
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 put	obj
39	back	back	ADV	_	37 put	advmod
40	again	again	ADV	_	37 put	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	box	five fingers		each hand		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient
2	not see	present · perfect	I	this five fingers not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Stimulus
3	employ	past · passive		fingers = finger			yet	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
4	take	to-infinitive		me		the box		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme out box=Initial_Location
5	put back	to-infinitive			me		again	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal

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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