Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 7
"What coarse work!" said the darning-needle, "I shall never get through.
Who acts: coarse work · What happens: work, say, not get through · 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 (coarse work), 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 | _ | 4 work | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 work | nsubj |
| 3 | coarse | coarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 work | amod |
| 4 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 work | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 work | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 needle | det |
| 9 | darning | darning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 needle | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 darning | punct |
| 11 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 get | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 get | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 get | advmod |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 18 | through | through | ADV | _ | 17 get | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | coarse work | the darning needle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent needle=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not get through in a quote | shall | coarse work = work | through property | vn cope-83-1-1 «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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