Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 54
"I am not a fellow, I am a young lady," said the darning-needle; but no one heard her.
Who acts: fellow, one · What happens: not be, be, say, hear · To what, where: fellow, young lady, darning needle, needle · 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 (fellow, one), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 fellow | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fellow | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 fellow | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fellow | det |
| 6 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lady | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 lady | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lady | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lady | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lady | amod |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fellow | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lady | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 lady | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 needle | det |
| 17 | darning | darning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 needle | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 darning | punct |
| 19 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 heard | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 heard | cc |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 one | det |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heard | nsubj |
| 24 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 heard | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | a fellow = fellow | a fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a fellow = fellow | a young lady | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a fellow | the darning needle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent needle=Topic | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | no one | needle | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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