Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 56

"Here comes an egg-shell sailing along," said one of the boys; so they stuck the darning-needle into the egg-shell.

Who acts: egg shell, one, boys · What happens: come, sail, say, stick · To what, where: darning needle, egg shell · 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 (egg shell, one, boys), 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:pg27200:1400): 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 comes	advmod
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shell	det
5	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shell	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 egg	punct
7	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
8	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 shell	acl
9	along	along	ADV	_	8 sailing	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 said	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 boys	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boys	det
16	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 stuck	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 stuck	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stuck	nsubj
20	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 needle	det
22	darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 needle	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 darning	punct
24	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stuck	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	29 shell	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 shell	det
27	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shell	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 egg	punct
29	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stuck	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present	a egg shell		here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sail in a quote	gerund	a egg shell not said here			along property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	one of the boys				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	stick	past	boys = boy	the darning needle	the egg shell		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent needle=Theme into shell=Destination

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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