Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 38

Sweet-tooth, his neighbor, dipped himself into sweet or sour, pointed to the sun and moon, and formed the letters when the fingers wrote.

Who acts: Sweet tooth, fingers · What happens: dip, point, form, write · To what, where: knot, sweet, sun, letters

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 (Sweet tooth, fingers), 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	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tooth	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Sweet	punct
3	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dipped	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 neighbor	punct
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 neighbor	nmod:poss
6	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tooth	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tooth	punct
8	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 dipped	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 sweet	case
11	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dipped	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 sour	cc
13	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sweet	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pointed	punct
15	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 sweet	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 sun	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sun	det
18	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pointed	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 moon	cc
20	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sun	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 formed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 formed	cc
23	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dipped	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 letters	det
25	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 formed	obj
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 wrote	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fingers	det
28	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 wrote	nsubj
29	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 formed	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	dip	past	Sweet tooth and knot's neighbor	knot		sweet	vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into sweet=Destination
2	point	participle	Sweet tooth and knot's neighbor not said here		the sun and moon		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sun=Recipient
3	form	past	Sweet tooth and knot's neighbor not said here	the letters			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location letter=Theme
4	write	past	the fingers				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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