Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 42
They were boasters, and boasters they will remain; and therefore I left them."
Who acts: fingers, I · What happens: be, remain, leave · To what, where: boasters, fingers
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 (fingers, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 boasters | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 boasters | cop |
| 3 | boasters | boaster | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 boasters | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 boasters | cc |
| 6 | boasters | boaster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 boasters | conj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 remain | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 remain | aux |
| 9 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 boasters | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 12 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 14 left | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 left | nsubj |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 boasters | acl:relcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 left | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 boasters | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 boasters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | fingers = finger | boasters and boasters | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remain | future | fingers = finger | boasters not said here | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boaster=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | I | fingers = finger | therefore property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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