Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 46

And so she sat there in her pride, and had many such thoughts as these,--"I could almost fancy that I came from a sunbeam, I am so fine.

Who acts: needle, piece · What happens: sit, have, fancy, come, be, pride · To what, where: pride, many such thoughts, sunbeam · 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 (needle, piece), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 sat	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sat	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pride	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pride	nmod:poss
8	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thoughts	amod
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thoughts	amod
14	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 these	case
16	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 had	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fancy	punct
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 fancy	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 fancy	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 fancy	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 fancy	aux
22	almost	almost	ADV	_	23 fancy	advmod
23	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 came	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fancy	advcl
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 sunbeam	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 sunbeam	det
29	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fine	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 fine	nsubj
32	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 fine	cop
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 fine	advmod
34	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sat	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	needle		needle's pride; there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pride=Location
2	have	past	needle not said here	many such thoughts		as these	tree rules
3	fancy in a quote	could	the piece of broken bottle = piece			almost property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	come in a quote	past	the piece of broken bottle = piece		a sunbeam		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sunbeam=Initial_Location
5	is in a quote	present	the piece of broken bottle = piece			fine property	tree rules
6	pride		needle				nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=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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