Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 8

“The poor woman can hardly drag herself along, and she must now drag the pail home from the fountain.

Who acts: poor woman, woman · What happens: drag · To what, where: woman, pail, fountain

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 (poor woman, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 drag	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drag	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 drag	aux
6	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	7 drag	advmod
7	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 drag	obj
9	along	along	ADV	_	7 drag	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 drag	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 drag	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 drag	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 drag	aux
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 drag	advmod
15	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 drag	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pail	det
17	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drag	obj
18	home	home	ADV	_	15 drag	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 fountain	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fountain	det
21	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drag	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 drag	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag in a quote	can	the poor woman	woman				along, hardly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
2	drag in a quote	must	woman	the pail		the fountain	now	home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent pail=Theme from fountain=Initial_Location

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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