Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 9

Did I not say so?" said the darning-needle, "I know I am too fine for such work as that."

Who acts: I · What happens: not say, say, know, be · 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 (I), 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	parataxis
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 say	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 needle	det
10	darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 needle	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 darning	punct
12	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
16	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 fine	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fine	cop
19	too	too	ADV	_	20 fine	advmod
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 know	ccomp
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 work	case
22	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 work	amod
23	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fine	obl
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 that	case
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 work	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 fine	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the darning needle		tree rules
3	know	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	I		for such work as that; fine property	tree rules

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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