--- title: "White walls, and I am black myself," said the darning-needle, "that… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "White walls, and I am black myself," said the darning-needle, "that looks well; now I can be seen, but I hope I shall not be sea-sick, or I shall break again." Who acts: White walls, darning needle. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle, with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/21/57/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Darning-needle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/21/) / 57 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 57 "White walls, and I am black myself," said the darning-needle, "that looks well; now I can be seen, but I hope I shall not be sea-sick, or I shall break again." **Who acts:** White walls, darning needle · **What happens:** be, say, look, see, hope, not be · **To what, where:** White walls, 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 (White walls, darning needle), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:21:57 # text = "White walls, and I am black myself," said the darning-needle, "that looks well; now I can be seen, but I hope I shall not be sea-sick, or I shall break again." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 darning darning NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 21 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 hope hope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 33 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 cop _ _ 36 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 44 again again ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | White walls *= wall* | White walls *not said here* | | | | myself *obl*; black *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | White walls | the darning needle | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **look** *in a quote* | present | the darning needle | | | | | well *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **see** *in a quote* | can · passive | | White walls *= wall* | | | now | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 5 | **hope** *in a quote* | present | White walls *= wall* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | shall | White walls *= wall* | | | | | sick *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **break** *in a quote* | shall | White walls *= wall* | | | | again | | 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. 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