Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 57
"White walls, and I am black myself," said the darning-needle, "that looks well; now I can be seen, but I hope I shall not be sea-sick, or I shall break again."
Who acts: White walls, darning needle · What happens: be, say, look, see, hope, not be · To what, where: White walls, darning 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 (White walls, darning needle), 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 | _ | 3 walls | punct |
| 2 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 walls | amod |
| 3 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 black | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 black | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 black | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 black | cop |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 walls | acl:relcl |
| 9 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 black | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 walls | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 walls | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 needle | det |
| 14 | darning | darning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 needle | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 darning | punct |
| 16 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 needle | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 needle | punct |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 looks | nsubj |
| 20 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 needle | acl:relcl |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 looks | advmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 seen | punct |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 seen | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 seen | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 seen | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 seen | aux:pass |
| 27 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hope | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 hope | cc |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 hope | nsubj |
| 31 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 seen | parataxis |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 sick | nsubj |
| 33 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 sick | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 sick | advmod |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 sick | cop |
| 36 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 sick | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 sea | punct |
| 38 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 hope | ccomp |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 break | punct |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 break | cc |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 break | nsubj |
| 42 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 break | aux |
| 43 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 hope | conj |
| 44 | again | again | ADV | _ | 43 break | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | White walls = wall | White walls not said here | myself obl; black property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | White walls | the darning needle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look in a quote | present | the darning needle | well property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | can · passive | White walls = wall | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | hope in a quote | present | White walls = wall | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | not is in a quote | shall | White walls = wall | sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | break in a quote | shall | White walls = wall | again | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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