Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 64

I am breaking!" but she did not break, though the waggon went over her as she lay at full length; and there let her lie.

Who acts: I, needle, waggon, White walls · What happens: break, not break, go over, lie, let · To what, where: needle, full length

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 (I, needle, waggon, White walls), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 breaking	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 breaking	aux
3	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 breaking	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 breaking	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 break	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 break	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 break	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 break	advmod
10	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 breaking	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 went	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 waggon	det
14	waggon	waggon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 breaking	conj
16	over	over	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 went	obj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 lay	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lay	nsubj
20	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 went	advcl
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 length	case
22	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 length	amod
23	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 let	cc
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 let	advmod
27	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 breaking	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 let	obj
29	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 breaking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break	present · progressive	I				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	not break in a quote	past · do-support	needle				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	go over in a quote	past	the waggon	needle		over property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Theme
4	lie in a quote	past	needle		full length		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=Location
5	let in a quote	infinitive	White walls = wall not said here	needle	there		tree rules
6	lie in a quote	infinitive	needle not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «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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