Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 53
Hallo!" cried one, as he pricked himself with the darning-needle, "here's a fellow for you."
Who acts: Hallo · What happens: cry, prick, be · To what, where: one, Hallo, fellow · 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 (Hallo), 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 | Hallo | hallo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hallo | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hallo | punct |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 cried | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pricked | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 pricked | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pricked | nsubj |
| 9 | pricked | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | conj |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 pricked | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 needle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 needle | det |
| 13 | darning | darning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 needle | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 darning | punct |
| 15 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pricked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fellow | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 here | punct |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 fellow | advmod |
| 19 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fellow | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fellow | det |
| 21 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pricked | parataxis |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 fellow | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Hallo | one | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 2 | prick in a quote | past | Hallo | Hallo | with the darning needle | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | a fellow | here | for you | 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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