Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 8
I shall break!--I am breaking!" and sure enough she broke. "
Who acts: I, work · What happens: break · 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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 break | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 break | aux |
| 3 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 break | punct |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 breaking | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 breaking | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 breaking | aux |
| 8 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 break | advcl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 breaking | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 breaking | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sure | cc |
| 12 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 break | conj |
| 13 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 12 sure | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 broke | nsubj |
| 15 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sure | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 break | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | shall | I | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | break | present · progressive | I | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | break in a quote | past | work | 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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