Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 58
She was not sea-sick, and she did not break. "
Who acts: needle · What happens: not be, not break
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sick | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sick | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 sick | advmod |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sick | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 sea | punct |
| 6 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 break | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 break | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 break | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 break | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 break | advmod |
| 12 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sick | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sick | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | needle | sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not break | past · do-support | needle | 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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