Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 40

It must end very soon," said the pieces to each other; "we would gladly have held together a little longer, but it is useless to expect impossibilities."

Who acts: linen, we · What happens: end, say, hold together, be, expect · To what, where: pieces, each, impossibilities · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (linen, we), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 end	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 end	aux
3	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 soon	advmod
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 end	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 end	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pieces	det
10	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 each	case
12	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	8 said	obl
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 each	fixed
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 held	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 held	punct
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 held	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 held	aux
18	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	20 held	advmod
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 held	aux
20	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	conj
21	together	together	ADV	_	20 held	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 little	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 longer	obl:unmarked
24	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 held	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 useless	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 useless	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 useless	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 useless	cop
29	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 end	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 expect	mark
31	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 useless	advcl
32	impossibilities	impossibility	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 expect	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 end	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 end	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	end	must	linen			soon property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the pieces	each		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent piece=Topic to each=Recipient
3	hold together	would · perfect	we			gladly, long, together property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	linen			useless property	tree rules
5	expect	to-infinitive	linen not said here	impossibilities			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impossibility=Theme

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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