Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 96

Nobody was at home except an old Lapland woman, who was dressing fish by the light of an oil lamp.

Who acts: Nobody, old Lapland woman · What happens: be, dress, light · To what, where: home, fish, oil lamp

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody, old Lapland woman), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 home	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 home	cop
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 home	case
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	except	except	ADP	_	9 woman	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
8	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 woman	compound
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 home	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dressing	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 dressing	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dressing	aux
13	dressing	dress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 woman	acl
14	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dressing	obj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 light	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 light	det
17	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dressing	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 lamp	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 lamp	det
20	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lamp	compound
21	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 light	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 home	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nobody		home	except a old Lapland woman	tree rules
2	dress	past · progressive	a old Lapland woman	fish		by the light of a oil lamp	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
3	light			a oil lamp			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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