Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 55

The sealing-wax had come off, and she was quite black; but black makes a person look slender, so she thought herself even finer than before.

Who acts: sealing wax, wax, person · What happens: come off, be, make, look, think · To what, where: person

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 (sealing wax, wax, person), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wax	det
2	sealing	sealing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wax	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 sealing	punct
4	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	off	off	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 black	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 black	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 black	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 black	cop
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 black	advmod
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 come	parataxis
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 makes	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 makes	cc
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 makes	amod
17	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 come	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 person	det
19	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 makes	obj
20	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 makes	xcomp
21	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 look	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 thought	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 thought	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thought	nsubj
25	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 makes	parataxis
26	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 finer	nsubj
27	even	even	ADV	_	28 finer	advmod
28	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 thought	ccomp
29	than	than	ADP	_	30 before	case
30	before	before	ADV	_	28 finer	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come off	past · perfect	the sealing wax		off property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	wax		black property	tree rules
3	make	present	the sealing wax not said here	a person		tree rules
4	look	infinitive	a person not said here		slender property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	think speech: other	past	wax			vn focus-87.1-1 «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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