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title: "I have been in a lady's work-box," said the darning-needle, "and th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I have been in a lady's work-box," said the darning-needle, "and this lady was the cook. Who acts: work box, lady. 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 32

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"I have been in a lady's work-box," said the darning-needle, "and this lady was the cook.

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**Who acts:** work box, lady · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** work box, darning needle, cook · **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 (work box, lady), 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:pg27200:21:32
# text = "I have been in a lady's work-box," said the darning-needle, "and this lady was the cook.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	darning	darning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | a lady's work box *= box* |  |  | a lady's work box |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a lady's work box | the darning needle and the cook |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent needle=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | this lady | the cook |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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