Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 7

“There goes the old washerwoman over the way,” said his mother, as she looked out of the window.

Who acts: old washerwoman, mother · What happens: go, say, look out · To what, where: window · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old washerwoman, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg1597:2094): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
2	There	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 goes	advmod
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 washerwoman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 washerwoman	amod
6	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 washerwoman	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 looked	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looked	nsubj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 window	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	19 out	fixed
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 window	det
22	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looked	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go in a quote	present	the old washerwoman over the way		there	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	washerwoman's mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	look out	past	mother	the window		tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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