Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 49
I am so fine that even my mother cannot find me.
Who acts: I, mother · What happens: be, not find · To what, where: me
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, mother), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fine | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 fine | advmod |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 find | mark |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 mother | advmod |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 find | advmod |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fine | csubj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 find | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not find | can | my mother | me | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic |
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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