Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 5
The fingers then placed the point of the needle against the cook's slipper.
Who acts: fingers · What happens: place, point · To what, where: point, slipper, needle
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:1359): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fingers | det |
| 2 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 placed | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 placed | advmod |
| 4 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 point | det |
| 6 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 needle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 needle | det |
| 9 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 point | nmod |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 slipper | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cook | det |
| 12 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slipper | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 cook | case |
| 14 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | the fingers | the point of the needle | the cook's slipper | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent point=Theme against slipper=Destination | ||
| 2 | point | the needle | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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