Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 62
Good heavens, how it crushes!" said the darning-needle. "
Who acts: sickness, Good heavens · What happens: crush, say · To what, where: 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 (sickness, Good heavens), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 heavens | amod |
| 2 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 crushes | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 crushes | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 crushes | nsubj |
| 6 | crushes | crush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 heavens | acl:relcl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 crushes | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 crushes | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 needle | det |
| 11 | darning | darning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 needle | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 darning | punct |
| 13 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crush | present | sickness | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Good heavens | the darning needle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent needle=Topic |
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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