Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 4

"See, I am coming with a train," said the darning-needle, drawing a long thread after her; but there was no knot in the thread.

Who acts: darning needle, knot · What happens: see, come, say, draw, be · To what, where: long thread · 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, knot), 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 See	punct
2	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 coming	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 coming	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 coming	aux
6	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 See	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 train	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 train	det
9	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coming	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 needle	det
14	darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 needle	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 darning	punct
16	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 drawing	punct
18	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 thread	det
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thread	amod
21	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drawing	obj
22	after	after	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drawing	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 was	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 was	cc
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	parataxis
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 knot	det
29	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 was	nsubj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 thread	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 thread	det
32	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 knot	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come in a quote	present · progressive	the darning needle = needle				with a train	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the darning needle					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	draw	gerund	the darning needle not said here	a long thread		after needle		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme
5	be	past	no knot in the thread		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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