Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 50

Had I still my old eye, which was broken off, I believe I should weep; but no, I would not do that, it is not genteel to cry."

Who acts: I, it · What happens: have, break off, believe, weep, not do, not be · To what, where: I, old eye, that · 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, it), 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	Had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Had	obj
3	still	still	ADV	_	6 eye	advmod
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eye	nmod:poss
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eye	amod
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Had	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 broken	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 broken	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 broken	aux:pass
10	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 eye	parataxis
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 broken	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 believe	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 believe	nsubj
14	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 broken	parataxis
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 weep	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 weep	aux
17	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 believe	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 do	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 do	cc
20	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	25 do	discourse
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 no	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 do	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 do	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 do	advmod
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Had	parataxis
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 do	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 genteel	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 genteel	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 genteel	cop
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 genteel	advmod
31	genteel	genteel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 do	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 cry	mark
33	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 genteel	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 do	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past		I	my old eye obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	break off	past · passive		my old eye		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	believe	present	I			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	weep	should	I			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not do	would	I	that		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
6	not is	present	it		genteel property	tree rules
7	cry speech: express	to-infinitive				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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