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title: I am breaking!" but she did not break, though the waggon went over h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I am breaking!" but she did not break, though the waggon went over her as she lay at full length; and there let her lie. Who acts: I, needle, waggon, White walls. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 64

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I am breaking!" but she did not break, though the waggon went over her as she lay at full length; and there let her lie.

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**Who acts:** I, needle, waggon, White walls · **What happens:** break, not break, go over, lie, let · **To what, where:** needle, full length

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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, waggon, White walls), 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:pg27200:21:64
# text = I am breaking!" but she did not break, though the waggon went over her as she lay at full length; and there let her lie.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	waggon	waggon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	over	over	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **break** *in a quote* | past · do-support | needle |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **go over** *in a quote* | past | the waggon | needle |  |  |  | over *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** *in a quote* | past | needle |  |  | full length |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=Location |
| 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | White walls *= wall* *not said here* | needle |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lie** *in a quote* | infinitive | needle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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