Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 45

"So he is promoted," said the darning-needle, "while I remain here; I am too fine, but that is my pride, and what do I care?"

Who acts: I, that · What happens: promote, say, remain, be, care · To what, where: Playman, pride · 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 (I, that), 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	_	5 promoted	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	5 promoted	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 promoted	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 promoted	aux:pass
5	promoted	promote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 promoted	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 promoted	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 needle	det
10	darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 needle	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 darning	punct
12	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 needle	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 needle	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 remain	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 remain	nsubj
17	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 remain	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 fine	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 fine	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 fine	cop
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 fine	advmod
23	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pride	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 pride	cc
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 pride	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 pride	cop
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 pride	nmod:poss
29	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fine	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 care	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 care	cc
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 care	obj
33	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 care	aux
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 care	nsubj
35	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 fine	parataxis
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	35 care	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 care	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	promote in a quote	present · passive		Playman			vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	remain in a quote	present	I		here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	I			fine property	tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present	that	my pride			tree rules
6	care in a quote	present · do-support	I				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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