Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 18

A sailor's wife, who was always proud and fine, in her way, came to her neighbor, and complained that she had got a splinter in her finger.

Who acts: wife · What happens: be, come, complain, get · To what, where: way, neighbor, splinter, finger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sailor	det
2	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sailor	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 proud	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 proud	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 proud	cop
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 proud	advmod
9	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wife	acl:relcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fine	cc
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 proud	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 way	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 way	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 way	nmod:poss
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 proud	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wife	punct
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 neighbor	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 neighbor	nmod:poss
20	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 complained	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 complained	cc
23	complained	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 got	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 got	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 got	aux
27	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 complained	ccomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 splinter	det
29	splinter	splinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 got	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 finger	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 finger	nmod:poss
32	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 splinter	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	a sailor's wife		wife's way	always, proud property	tree rules
2	be		a sailor's wife not said here				tree rules
3	come	past	a sailor's wife		wife's neighbor		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to neighbor=Initial_Location
4	complain speech: other	past					vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	get	past · perfect	wife	a splinter	wife's finger		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer splinter=Stimulus

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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