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title: Now I am going on a journey," said the needle, as she floated away w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now I am going on a journey," said the needle, as she floated away with the dirty water, "I do hope I shall not be lost." Who acts: I, needle. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 15

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Now I am going on a journey," said the needle, as she floated away with the dirty water, "I do hope I shall not be lost."

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**Who acts:** I, needle · **What happens:** go, say, float away, hope, not lose · **To what, where:** journey, needle, I · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:21:15
# text = Now I am going on a journey," said the needle, as she floated away with the dirty water, "I do hope I shall not be lost."
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · progressive | I |  |  | a journey | now |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | the needle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **float away** *in a quote* | past | needle |  |  |  |  | with the dirty water; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hope** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **lose** | shall · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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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